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L I N C O L N
C O L L E G E
R E C O R D
2004 – 2005
VISITOR
The Bishop of Lincoln
RECTOR
Professor Paul Langford, M.A., D.Phil., F.B.A.
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Editor:
Stephen Gill
Tutor in English
Sub-editors:
Paul Eros, Alice Gosling
Development Office
Design and Typesetting:
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LINCOLN COLLEGE
Oxford OX1 3DR
Telephone: (01865) 279800
Development Office
Telephone: (01865) 279793
FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION: from a watercolour by F. Mackenzie, used for the
Oxford Almanack, 1823. Reproduced by courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum.
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Contents
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The Fellowship
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From the Rector
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From the Bursar
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Report of the Alumni Representatives
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From the Senior Tutor
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From the Development Director
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From the Chaplain
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From the Librarian
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From the Archivist
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Crossword
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Sir Arthur Trevor
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Photographic Lincoln
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Edwardian Lincoln
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Alumni News
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2004 Matriculation Photograph
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Obituaries
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The Senior Common Room
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The Middle Common Room
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The Junior Common Room
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1427 Committee
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Lincoln Society
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Choir
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Drama
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Sports Reports
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Examination Results
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Students Joining
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CD Order Form
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The Fellowship
Back row, l to r: Cristina Dondi, George Westhaver, Thomas Martinec, Peter Cook, David Vaux, Perry Gauci
Daniel Kelemen, John Norbury, Bruno Whittle, Keith Gull, Simon Gardner, Nick Jelley, Richard Bird
Susan Brigden, David Hills, Marco Bacic, Peter McCullough, Michael Rosen, Dominic Joyce, Bert Smith, Margaret Stevens
Front row, l to r: Jane Skinner, Peter Atkins, Anne-Marie Drummond, Stephen Gill, Paul Langford, Tim Knowles, Elaine Crooks,
George Brownlee, Maria Stamatopoulou
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The Fellowship 2004-2005
FELLOWS
Atkins, Peter William, M.A., Ph.D. (Hon.D.Sc., Utrecht): Glaxo
SmithKline Fellow, Professor of Chemistry, Tutor in Physical Chemistry,
Fellow for Alumni Relations and Secretary to Lincoln Society
Gill, Stephen Charles, B.Phil., M.A., Ph.D.: Professor of English
Literature, Tutor in English Literature, Sub-Rector and Steward of
Common Room
Jelley, Nicholas Alfred, M.A., D.Phil.: Professor of Physics and Tutor
in Physics
Gardner, Simon, M.A., B.C.L.: Tutor in Jurisprudence
Brownlee, George Gow, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.: E..P. Abraham
Professor of Chemical Pathology
Brigden, Susan Elizabeth, M.A., Ph.D.: Reader in Modern History
and Tutor in Modern History
McCrudden, John Christopher, M.A., D.Phil., L.L.B.(Oxon.),
L.L.M.(Cantab.): Professor of Human Rights Law and Tutor in Law
Hills, David Anthony, M.A., Ph.D., C.Eng.: Professor of
Engineering Science and Tutor in Engineering Science
Norbury, John, M.A., Ph.D.: Tutor in Applied Mathematics
Bird, Richard Simpson, M.A., Ph.D.: Professor of Computer Science
Rosen, Michael Eric, M.A., D.Phil.: Tutor in Philosophy
Vaux, David John Talbutt, M.A., D.Phil., B.M., B.Ch.: Nuffield
Research Fellow in Pathology and Tutor in Medicine
Johnson, Neil Fraser, M.A., Ph.D.: Professor of Physics and Tutor in Physics
Waldmann, Herman, M.A., M.B., Ph.D., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.Path.,
F.Med.Sci., F.R.S.: Professor of Pathology
Smith, Roland Ralph Redfern, M.A., D.Phil.: Lincoln Professor of
Classical Archaeology and Art
Joyce, Dominic David, M.A., D.Phil.: Professor of Mathematics and
Tutor in Pure Mathematics, EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
Nye, Edward Michael Jacques, M.A., D.Phil.: Elf Fellow and Tutor
in French
McCullough, Peter Eugene, M.A., Ph.D.: Sohmer-Hall Fellow and
Tutor in Renaissance English Literature, Senior Dean
Gümbel, Alexander, D.Phil.: Tutor in Management
Emptage, Nigel John, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.: Nuffield Research Fellow
and Tutor in Pharmacology and Physiology
Knowles, Timothy Michael, M.A.: Bursar
Stevens, Margaret Jane, M.A., M.Sc., M.Phil., D.Phil.: Fellow and
Tutor in Economics
Cook, Peter Richard, M.A., D.Phil.: E.P. Abraham Professor of Cell
Biology
Drummond, Anne-Marie Rose, M.A., D.Phil.: Senior Tutor
Hull, Jeremy, B.A., B.M., B.Ch., D.M., M.R.C.P.C.H.: Fellow and
Tutor in Clinical Medicine (Paediatrics)
Gauci, Peregrine Lee, M.A., D.Phil.: V.H.H. Green Fellow in
History, Tutor in History and Fellow Librarian and Archivist
Martinec, Thomas, M.A.: Montgomery-DAAD Fellow, Tutor in
German Studies and Dean of Degrees
Crooks, Elaine Craig Mackay, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D.: Darby Fellow
and Tutor in Mathematics, Dean of Degrees
Martin, Joanna Mary, B.A.: Darby Fellow and Tutor in English
Literature, Associate Tutor for Admissions
Stamatopoulou, Maria, M.St., D.Phil., B.A.: Lavery Fellow in
Classical Archaeology, Associate Dean
Kelemen, Roger Daniel, A.B., Ph.D.: Fellow and Tutor in Politics
Bacic, Marco, M.Eng, DPhil: Fellow in Control Engineering and
Tutor in Engineering
Proudfoot, Nicholas Jarvis, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D.: Brownlee-Abraham
Professor of Molecular Biology
Payne, Frank Phillip, M.A., Ph.D.: Fellow in Electronic Materials
Engineering and Tutor in Engineering
Wood, Jennifer Gertrude, B.Sc., M.Sc., MICE: Extraordinary Fellow
Wright, Andrew, B.Sc, Ph.D.: Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor in
Medical, Biological and Chemical Sciences.
Skinner, Jane Mary, B.A. HCIMA: Assistant Bursar
SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS
Shorter, John Michael Hind, M.A.
Owen, John, M.A., D.Phil.
Whitton, Donald Frank, M.A., B.Litt.
Edwards, David Albert, M.A., D.Phil.
Trapido, Stanley, M.A., Ph.D.
Cowey, Alan, M.A. (Oxon.), M.A. (Cantab.), D.Phil., Ph.D., F.R.S.
Wilson, Nigel Guy, M.A., F.B.A.
Child, Graham Derek, M.A.
Goldey, David Baer, M.A., D.Phil.
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Kenning, David Blanchard Robert, M.A., Ph.D., C.Eng.,
M.I.Mech.E.
RESEARCH FELLOWS
Greenfield, Susan Adele, The Baroness Greenfield, C.B.E., M.A.,
D.Phil.: Senior Research Fellow (Nuffield Non-Clinical), Professor
of Pharmacology
Dondi, Cristina Francesca, Laurea in Lettere Moderne, Ph.D.:
J.P.R. Lyell Junior Research Fellow in the History of the Early
Modern Printed Book
Gull, Keith, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.Med.Sci., F.R.S: Senior Research Fellow
in Molecular Parasitology
Holmes, Christopher Charles de Lance, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.: Senior
Research Fellow in Statistical Genomics
Wentworth, Paul, B.S.C, Ph.D.: Senior Research Fellow in Chemistry
Whittle, Bruno James King, B.Phil: Junior Research Fellow in
Philosophy
Wynn, Thomas, B.A., M.A.: Hardie Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Humanities
PRAELECTORS
Wadhams, George Howard, D.Phil.: Praelector in Biochemistry
Cooper, John Philip Dominic, M.A., D.Phil. (MA Penn.):
Praelector in Early Modern History
Williams, Sarah Charlotte, M.A., D.Phil.: Praelector in Modern
History
CHAPLAIN
Westhaver, The Revd George, B.A., M.Div.
HONORARY FELLOWS
Richards, Sir Rex Edward, Kt., M.A., D.Phil., F.R.S., Hon. F.B.A.,
F.R.S.C., F.R.I.C.
Harris, Sir Henry, Kt., M.A., D.Phil., D.M., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Path.,
F.R.S.
Ball, Sir Christopher John Elinger, Kt., M.A.
Goff – the Rt Hon. Lord Goff of Chieveley, (Robert Lionel
Archibald Goff ), P.C., M.A., D.C.L., F.B.A.
Clothier, Sir Cecil Montacute, K.C.B., M.A., B.C.L., Q.C.
Cornwell, David John Moore (John Le Carré) B.A.
Craig, David Brownrigg, Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord
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Craig of Radley, G.C.B., O.B.E., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.Ae.S.
Gowans, Sir James Learmouth, Kt., C.B.E., M.A., D.Phil.,
F.R.C.P., F.R.S.
Cohen, Johnson David, C.B.E., M.B., M.A., F.R.C.G.P.
Donoughue, Bernard, Lord Donoughue of Ashton, M.A., D.Phil.,
F.R.Hist.S.
Henderson, David, C.M.G., M.A.
Miller, Sir Peter North, Kt., M.A.
Boardman, Sir John, Kt., M.A., F.B.A., F.S.A.
Lucas, Sir Colin Renshaw, M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S.
Shock, Sir Maurice, Kt., M.A.
Simpson, Alfred William Brian, M.A., D.C.L., F.B.A.
Thomas, Rt Hon. Sir Swinton Barclay, (The Rt Hon. Lord Justice
Swinton Thomas), Kt., P.C., Q.C., M.A.
Watson, James Dewey, B.S., Ph.D.
Clementi, Sir David Cecil, M.A.
Anderson, Sir Eric, Kt., F.R.S.E.
Eddington, Sir Roderick Ian, D.Phil., B.Eng., M.Eng.Sc., Hon. D.Laws
Longmore, Andrew Centlivres, The Rt Hon. Lord Justice
Longmore, Kt., P.C., Q.C., M.A.
Dwek, Raymond Allen, M.A., D.Phil., D.Sc., C.Chem., FRSC,
C.Biol., FIBiol., FRS
Kornicki, Peter Francis, M.Sc., D.Phil., FBA
Klein, Lawrence Robert, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Cook, Stephanie Jayne, M.A., B.M. B.Ch., MRCS, MBE
FLEMING FELLOWS
Hall, Deidre
Montgomery, Bryan, M.A., Hon. F.R.I.B.A.
Middleton, Lefkos T., M.D.
Sohmer, Stephen, M.A., D.Phil.
Taylor, Jeremy, M.A.
Brown, John, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.Med.Sci., F.R.E.S.
MURRAY FELLOWS
Dilts, Mervin, M.A., Ph.D.
Mitchell, Peter, M.A.
Myers, Peter Briggs, D.Phil.
Sewards-Shaw, Kenneth, M.A.
van Diest, Patricia, M.Sc.
Greenwood, Regan, Ph.D.
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From the Rector
This has been the year of the new Vice-Chancellor, not only a
new one but one in a new mould, brought from outside the
University to provide a fresh perspective and grip on its
increasingly problematic finances. He has begun with
challenging questions about numerous aspects of our activities
and structures. They raise issues of concern to the collegiate
university in all its manifestations and will naturally require
some iteration and negotiation before the results are clear. Much
will depend on the extent to which the academic community
that has to work with them takes in the current language,
‘ownership’. Even more it depends on the extent to which the
university’s complex financial and administrative systems are
capable of coping with the demands placed on them by
mounting external pressures and increasing internal complexity.
The one thing that is sure is that our debates and differences will
be reported like those of no other university, with the possible
exception of Cambridge. A good deal of what has already
appeared in the press on the subject is accurate and to the point.
But some of what is written is neither.
Two perceptions from the outside are particularly
misleading. One is that Oxford is highly resistant to change. In
fact the contrary is true. The University as a whole has in recent
decades embraced the modern world of competitive research,
engaged with the demands of industry and employers, and
tuned its teaching programmes to the requirements of a global
market. In 2000 its governance was radically revised and
restructured after the North Report. The resulting shake-up was
the biggest since the 1960s, and arguably since the 1860s. The
full consequences of these considerable revolutions in our ways
of doing things are still working themselves through.
None of this means that we should be tempted to abandon
those assets which we have inherited and which continue to make
us not just a modern university, but a highly distinctive one. We
still have our ancient buildings, our collegiate system, our
tradition of excellence, our tutorial values; we also have students
and staff who operate at the highest levels of learning and
research. We are not complacent about these things but we do
draw confidence from them. We are also ready to defend them in
the face of crass demands for ‘modernisation’ which assume that
if a particular practice or value is not changed, it must be faulty.
The second perception is that colleges are somehow the
‘problem’ for Oxford University as a whole. What this ‘problem’
is remains unarticulated. Mr Lambert in his report of two years
ago to the Treasury, seemed to regard the colleges as standing in
the way of the university’s progress. The report provided no
evidence to support this supposition. The truth is that colleges
are merely one example of a relatively decentralised structure
which fits well with the central aim of the reforms that we are
currently carrying through. The governance changes of 2000
emphasised the importance of ‘subsidiarity’ and created new
divisional structures within the university as a whole to permit
faculties and departments to develop their own priorities and
take responsibility for their activities. If there is a perception that
the colleges are obstacles to greater efficiency, they are not the
colleges as institutions but the body of serving academics of the
whole university, who form Congregation. Congregation can
indeed be a problem, but only in the sense that democracies can
be a problem. Academics are at Oxford not for financial rewards,
nor for High Table and the Senior Common Room so often
satirised in print, but for the culture of commitment,
competition and accomplishment that they find here. Their
sense of ownership of the institution and its values contributes
largely to making the university so distinctive and so successful.
Colleges are a big part of Oxford’s continuing appeal as well as
its historic reputation. They house the great majority of students,
and provide the base from which to conduct both teaching and
research to a large proportion of Oxford’s academics. They are
home to a remarkable mix of cultures, disciplines and
nationalities, and generate a social vitality that crosses numerous
kinds of boundaries. Collegiality is itself a quality which many
institutions that are not colleges are keen to achieve. The
collegiality of colleges has changed over the centuries and is far
less monochrome or club-like than some believe it once was. It
maximises the ‘face-to-face’ intimacy that develops not only
minds but personalities. In short they offer a human scale within
a large and complex institution. They have been doing these
things over many centuries. What great university of the world
would not wish to have such assets?
Antiquity is sometimes confused with inflexibility. Colleges
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(or some of them) are certainly ancient but the idea that they do
not change is absurd. Lincoln has changed a good deal over the
decades. It has grown much bigger, especially in terms of
postgraduate numbers and the Fellowship. Its facilities have
vastly improved, and its physical stock greatly expanded. It has
done these things somehow, almost miraculously indeed, without
losing its powerful collegial tradition and its appeal to students.
Lincoln is still in the midst of substantial change. Our current
strategic plan, put together in 2001 to cope with serious financial
problems, is now drawing to a close and will be replaced by
another with slightly less short-term goals in mind. We have met
the great majority of our targets over five years, most notably the
financial control which was essential at a time when our
commitments were at risk of getting out of scale with our income,
especially that derived from the taxpayer. We are nearing the
completion of the new development at Museum Road which will
improve our income while simultaneously looking after our
graduate and undergraduate students better. Not least we have
markedly increased our commitment to specific access initiatives
and ensuring that students have the standards of academic tuition
and monitoring that are essential in an era of ever-growing
attention to the requirements of ‘consumers’.
But perhaps most notably we have sought to shift our alumni
relations and fundraising potential towards the levels that are
essential if, during the coming years, we are to achieve greater selfsufficiency. This is an objective that all of us seem to be agreed on.
Having spoken with many alumni during the last five years, if any
old member believes we would do better to try and depend more on
the tax-payer, I would be intrigued to hear from him or her!
In previous years I have commented on the special moments of
the year, especially those that Lincoln’s students have made possible.
This year has not been short of such, but I have deliberately
concentrated in this issue on some of the challenges which we face
at a time of some turbulence not least within the university itself. It
is the duty of Rectors and Fellows to understand such challenges
and meet them. It is also their duty to ensure that our students
continue to enjoy and benefit from their time at Oxford. Happily
all the signs are that they do. Long may it be thus.
Paul Langford
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From the Bursar
How would you best sum up the character of Lincoln College?
Over the past few months I have been leading a group
comprising College officers, present students and alumni, to
undertake a most important task for the College: the revival and
reinvigoration of the Lincoln College web-site. In a few months’
time, visitors to www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk should be witnessing the
results of this project, in the form of a web-site that informs its
readers in a manner even more attractive and timely than does
the current one. At the initiative of one of the alumni, Dr. Regan
Greenwood, the briefing given to prospective web-site designers
included a selection of phrases characterising the impression of
the College that we wish to leave with visitors to the site. Let me
share those phrases with you:
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3.
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6.
Small, friendly, inspiring community
Unusually successful for its size
Strong and focused academically
Reputation for world-class research
Proudly traditional, and modern
Quietly professional
What particularly comes across from these descriptors is the
strong sense of Lincoln as a community, and one in which the
achievement of the whole is much greater than merely the sum of
its parts. And like all communities, Lincoln College evolves and
changes over time. In this respect, 2004-05 has been no exception.
One particularly important change, impacting dramatically
on the College’s physical shape and size, is occurring even as this
edition of the Record is being sent to press. Construction of the
Lincoln/EPA Science Centre will be completed during the Long
Vacation, with the first students taking up residence in the 48
new study-bedrooms ready for Michaelmas Term. Situated in
what used to be the gardens at the rear of the College’s houses in
Museum Road, the Science Centre and the refurbished houses
(presently designated as Lincoln Hall) together provide
accommodation for around a quarter of the College’s student
population. Inevitably for a project of this size and complexity
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the refurbishment and construction work at Museum Road has
been the cause of many a perturbation on the part of the Bursar
over the past two years. But the finished product will be a great
asset to the College, providing new facilities and a new focus for
the College community, and with every prospect of generating
additional revenues from conferences and summer schools.
This latter point, regarding increased revenues, is particularly
important. We are coming towards the end of the period of
implementation of the College’s first strategic plan, begun in late
2001. Over the past four years a great deal has been achieved
towards putting Lincoln on a more robust financial footing, in
particular ending the pattern of operating deficits that had built
up in earlier years. It is essential that these hard-won successes are
not now eroded. The College’s accounts for 2003-04 show a
financial surplus on the College’s operations of £359,000 (200203: £338,000) meaning that the College is operating in a manner
readily supported by the self-imposed limit on drawdown from
the endowment. Indeed, the College is now in a position
consistently to reinvest funds in the endowment each year.
Further investment in the endowment by alumni and friends of
the College through generous gifts has also been vital to the goal
of increasing it’s endowment. As the next phase of the strategic
plan takes shape, maintenance of operating surpluses, and
ongoing growth rather than diminution of the endowment, will
remain important features.
Communities inevitably have to react to external pressures
and threats. Again Lincoln, and its finances, is no exception.
While the root cause of the financial pressures felt by most
Oxbridge colleges lies with central government’s policy of
restraining the funding of the collegiate universities, additional
challenges will come from the central university as it seeks to
stabilise its finances and establish a new mechanism for the
sharing of resources between departments and colleges.
External pressures notwithstanding, the Lincoln community
derives much of its strength from the loyalty of its members.
Lincoln is particularly blessed in having a remarkably loyal body
of staff. It was with great sadness that we bade farewell this year
to Chic Leniewski, who died of cancer in February 2005. Chic
had been a member of Lincoln’s staff for 37 years, latterly as
Head of the College’s maintenance team, and he is sorely missed
by colleagues, Fellows and students alike. Our thoughts remain
with his wife, Lynn, and his son and daughter. On a happier
note, we welcomed to the College our new Assistant Bursar, Jane
Skinner. Jane has taken on the remit of managing all of the
College’s domestic operations – accommodation, catering and
premises – areas in which the College has a fine tradition of
professional and high-quality service. Mind you, Jane has some
way to go before matching the records of some of our longestserving members of staff, for whom 2006 will be an important
year. Chef Jim Murden will celebrate 30 years with the College
and Butler Kevin Egleston 25 years. Jim’s two colleagues in the
Kitchen, Richard Malloy and Patrick Jeremy will both have their
20th anniversaries. Jill Hicks, a mainstay of the Bursary,
celebrated her 25 years at the College in March 2005; while Peter
Lawrence continues to achieve excellence in his care of the
College’s lawns and gardens, 21 years after he first entered the
place. This sort of staff loyalty is nowadays far from
commonplace, and these examples do much to reinforce the
special nature of the Lincoln community.
A view of one of the kitchens in the renovated Lincoln Hall (Museum
Road Houses).
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As well as the staff, and the Fellows and the current
generations of students, our alumni are an essential part of that
community, too. I am particularly appreciative of the support
given to the College’s Finance Committee this year by two of their
number, Hugh Sloane and Christopher Fitzgerald. Their advice
on all matters financial, particularly those oriented towards
investment of the College’s assets, has been invaluable. And we are
grateful, too, for the direct financial support provided by so many
former students. Of especial note have been the contributions
from alumni to funds for the support of current students who are
experiencing financial hardship; and contributions to the Annual
Fund, part of which has this year enabled the College to improve
its provision for students with disabilities.
I have already alluded to the subject which is my priority for
the coming months. That is the development of the next phase of
the College’s strategic plan, ready for implementation over the
next five years or so. From the Bursary’s viewpoint the priority has
to be the maintenance of a secure financial base for the College,
which entails controlling the financing of our regular operations
with a view to growing the College’s pool of endowment assets.
And in this way, I am sure, the future of the Lincoln community
will be assured for this generation and for those to come.
Tim Knowles
Report of the Alumni Members of the
Governing Body’s Finance Committee,
Christopher FitzGerald (1963) and
Hugh Sloane (1977)
One of the key elements of the College’s strategic plan of 2001 was
a renewed effort to engage more closely with its alumni and in
particular to make its finances more transparent to them.
We have both been members of the Lincoln Fellowship
Campaign Committee since its inception. Like the Rector’s
Council, of which we are also both members, this Committee
maintains a valuable line of communication between Old Members
and the Rector and Bursar on behalf of the Governing Body. In
2003 Sir Rod Eddington, the Committee’s Chairman, and the
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Rector agreed that this process would be greatly enhanced, and with
it the credibility of the College’s representations to its Old Members
(and other potential donors), if the Governing Body were to accept
two alumni as members of its Finance Committee. This proposal
was welcomed by the Governing Body as a means not only of
improving the transparency of its finances but also of verifying the
good governance of its financial affairs while at the same time
gaining the benefit of direct input of dispassionate advice about
those affairs. On Rod’s recommendation the Rector invited Hugh,
with his great expertise in investment management, and
Christopher, with his experience in City law and financial services
and of corporate governance, to serve as the first alumni
representatives on the Finance Committee.
Although we normally attend only one meeting of the
Committee each term, we receive both the papers for and the
minutes of all its other meetings and we are welcome to raise
questions about them, whether at the meetings we do attend or
directly with Rector or the Bursar in the interim. The agenda for
the meetings we attend are designed to cover, among other things,
those matters which are likely to be of most particular interest to
alumni and other donors. They include reviewing and discussing
Development Office reports and the application of donations; the
College’s annual accounts with the reports of its auditors; the
financial returns required to be made to the University and other
authorities; reports on the investments comprising the College’s
endowment and their management; and the Bursar’s proposals for
his annual budgeting process. Furthermore, every meeting of the
Committee receives up to date management accounts reporting
clearly and consistently on actual performance against budget.
With the benefit now of nearly two years of experience we are
happy to report our view that the College’s financial affairs are being
conducted in a thoughtful, disciplined and effective way. Much has
been done, and sacrifices made, to put them on a sound footing and
to make it possible to take the very necessary steps required to
improve its funding position. We have been made unreservedly
welcome from the outset and have felt fully engaged in the process.
No questions we may raise or suggestions we make are considered
out of order. In short, good governance and proper accountability
are central to the Finance Committee’s conduct of all its affairs.
There continues to be much to be done. We are looking
forward to playing our full part.
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Chancellor. The University in the course of 2004/05 made some
interesting statements concerning its Size and Shape Strategy for the
next five years. It projects a return to the historical overall growth rate
Some recent research into the size and shape of Lincoln over the last
of 1.5%, and in relation to this talks about gradually decreasing
undergraduate numbers over a five year period, then plateauing out.
thirty years brought to light some very striking facts: leaving aside
It proposes a vigorous programme of international recruitment, and at
the noteworthy growth in the Fellowship over that period, the
the same time, proposes that postgraduate numbers will be increased.
undergraduate population grew by 37% between 1974 and 2004,
How does Lincoln respond to this vision? On the postgraduate
and the postgraduate population by an amazing173%. While the
side, Lincoln’s recent plans for expansion chime in with the
College’s undergraduate growth rate in this period was more or less
University’s long-term plans. Lincoln’s plans for postgraduate
in line with that of the University, our postgraduate growth rate far
expansion have recently been tied to the completion of the new
surpassed it (173%: 111%), so that Lincoln’s overall growth rate
Lincoln EPA Science Centre (which will accommodate graduate
was greater than that of the University (68%:57%). In spite of this
students for the first time in 2005/06), but this has at no point been
growth and particular increase in the number of its graduates,
predicated on the idea that undergraduate numbers would be
Lincoln has remained one of the four smallest undergraduate
reduced. Lincoln has no plans to mirror the University’s larger
colleges in Oxford; it has however become a significant player in
resolve and to reduce its undergraduate intake. In spite of growth
terms of graduate intake.
over the last thirty years, it still remains one of the four smallest of
Where do we go from here? Alumni may have read in the
the undergraduate colleges, and is conscious that, while small is
national press articles following the development of the University’s
certainly beautiful, it must also retain a certain critical mass in order
overarching academic strategy for the next five–ten year period, in
to sustain the range and quality of undergraduate provision which
particular in combination with interviews with our new Viceit currently offers. There are other reasons
for retaining ‘steady state’ from here on in:
while Lincoln prides itself on its position as
a ‘combined college’ with a healthy
graduate intake, it also acknowledges the
desirability of maintaining a balance of the
graduate and undergraduate in College,
allowing the one to complement but not
dominate the other. This is part of what
gives the College its particular social poise
and swing, and its diversity which manages
still to achieve a high level of integration
across the whole body of its members.
And so Lincoln moves on further into
the twenty-first century, open as ever to
carefully paced change, maximising on its
strong points and looking definitely
forward – and yet not abandoning the
robust foundations which give it its most
Berrow Foundation Scholars in residence for 2004-2005 with Professor and Mrs Langford,
enduring (and endearing) characteristics.
Dr Anne-Marie Drummond, the Marquise de Amodio and Trudy
Anne-Marie Drummond
From the Senior Tutor
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From the Development
Director
This year has been one of change and challenge for the
Development Office. With the input of Paul Cheng (1991), Tom
Clementi (1998), Ed Hayes (1998) and Jen Lowe (1999) Lincoln
for Life was successfully launched with several happy hours and a
talk by Rod Eddington (1974) in London. Next up, with the help
of Paul Cheng and Regan Greenwood (1979), are significant
revisions to the website so that we can facilitate alumni networking,
both social and professional, and mentoring. We are most grateful
to Richard Hardie (1967) who has been so supportive of all of these
efforts and to those alumni who have opened their email address
books to help us promote these programme.
Additionally, plans to introduce the concept of a life-long
relationship with current and future students are underway. Nelson
Ong (1973) joined the newest alumni (otherwise known as
Leavers) at the 1427 BBQ in June and Will Davis (1998) and other
young alumni will join Freshers at the 1427 Freshers Drinks being
Campaign Chair Sir Rod Eddington (1974) and Development
Director Alice Gosling
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held during new student week 2005. We also hope to start reaching
out to those who come up in October 2006 by inviting them to
events with alumni in their home regions before they travel to
Oxford. If anyone has further ideas of programmes that would be
of service or interest to alumni, please do let us know.
The Year Dinner programme continues to be successful with
the help of hosts John Tanner (1955), Kevin Donnelly (1965),
Simon Roper (1975), Dana Gluckstein (1985) and Hatty Kidner
(1995). David (1967) and Tom (1998) Clementi did a great double
act after the March Dining Club and we appreciate Peter Atkins
sharing his thoughts on the Ten Great Ideas of Science with Murray
Society members on Murray Day.
A special dinner was held in Hall on 27th June 2005, to allow
the Rector, Fellows and staff to express their thanks to Rod
Eddington for his service to the College and congratulate him on
his knighthood and retirement from BA. Rod will be much missed
but will, I’m sure, help us stir up alumni in Australia. Many thanks
to Ian Much (1963) who will be taking over as Campaign
Chairman upon Rod’s departure.
In March 2005, the Rector was pleased to report that the trustees
of the Crewe Trust in Durham had agreed that funding for the Crewe
Bursary Scheme would be increased for the 2006-07 academic year.
They have agreed to allocate £40,000 to the College in the first year
of the scheme. The Crewe bursaries are awarded to undergraduates
facing financial hardship with no recourse to Government schemes,
and to postgraduates on the bases of both need and academic
excellence. Candidates for bursaries are nominated by the College, and
selected by a committee of the Crewe trustees and the Rector. The
Record takes this opportunity to thank the Crewe Trust for their longterm support.
The Campaign has seen some strong results but remains a
major challenge for a college the size of Lincoln. Major
commitments from US donors Spencer Fleischer (1976), Simon Li
(1966) and Adebayo Ogunlesi (1972) helped to make our trip to
the US a success. With the encouragement of Jeremy Taylor (1961),
Timothy and Kit Kemp have provided vital funding for a
postdoctoral scholar working on important research in David
Vaux’s laboratory. Bob Blake (1946) continues his generous and
valued support for the choir and toward the new organ. Realization
of a bequest from Ian Hammett (1955) will name a house in
Museum Road and The Sloane Robinson Foundation, co-founded
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It is hard to underestimate the
importance of every alumnus/na giving
what they can toward this effort. One
hundred people giving, via Gift Aid, as
little as £32 per month for five years
(which after their tax reclaim costs only
£25) would generate £250,000 and make
significant inroads into that remaining
target. One can say “Oh, that’s easy, others
will do it.” But the reality remains that in
a recent mail and telethon solicitation to
850 alumni, only 6 did so. The majority of
those capable of leadership gifts have
already been asked for their support. It is
now time for the general alumni body to
rise to the challenge. We welcome ideas and
interest as we launch the final phase of this
Campaign.
Sadly, we have several farewells this year.
Paul Eros has returned to Corpus where he
will serve as Development Officer and Olga
will be joining her husband Omar (and, in
November, Baby Al-Saadoon) in
Members of the Campaign Committee attending Sir Rod Eddington’s goodbye party: Sir Rod Manchester. Many thanks to them both for
Eddington (1974), Patricia Van Diest, Development Director Alice Gosling, incoming Campaign their hard work and endless patience as new
programming ideas add to their already
Chair Ian Much (1963), Regan Greenwood (1979), and Dr. Anne-Marie Drummond
challenging work loads. Professor Peter Atkins
will also be stepping down as Fellow for Alumni Relations, a post that
by Hugh Sloane (1977) and George Robinson, continues its
he has held for a dozen years. As someone who has always been happy
important support for the same project.
to speak at events and host visiting alumni at High Table, not to
The remaining challenge for this Campaign is the £250,000 left
mention his more formal duties, he has been of invaluable assistance
to identify toward the new bequest commitments goal and the
to this office.
critical £700,000 remaining to be raised toward the renovation of
As always, please do let us know if you plan to be in Oxford.
the Museum Road houses. Finding this sum is essential otherwise
You will find the many new faces in the Development Office in a
conference and other income will have to be diverted to pay for
new setting as we move to room 3.2 on the Jeremy Taylor Staircase,
construction. Despite financial improvements brought about by the
one of the College’s most historic and lovely spaces. Thank you for
campaign and the strategic plan, such expenditure would come at
your continued interest in the College!
the expense of academic priorities that have already been
Alice Hahn Gosling
significantly slashed: Fellowships lost, lack of student assistance
funds and inadequate support for other activities and programmes.
P.S. Our apologies to John Salter (1953) who was mistakenly
Would anyone who enjoyed a free education with all the trimmings
listed as matriculating in 1943 in last year’s Record.
at Lincoln really like to see such cuts continue and, indeed, increase?
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From the Chaplain
The intimacy of the Lincoln Chapel is part of its charm. Its size
contributes to the welcoming and friendly character which
students and visitors often ascribe to the Chapel. On the other
hand, this quality may be less attractive to alumni considering
whether or not to be married in College. For some, the need to
limit the guest list to seventy five or eighty makes the Chapel not
intimate or cosy, but just too small. Bigger congregations than
usual stretch the Chapel’s capacity on special occasions like the
Advent Carol Service and the Christmas Concert. On one Sunday
evening in particular this year, the Chapel was filled to
overflowing. At the end of fifth week in Hilary term, Lincoln
hosted the Turl St Arts Festival Evensong. Holding this combined
Evensong at Lincoln meant that we not only needed to
accommodate a good number of guests from Jesus and Exeter, but
also the combined choirs of the three Colleges. With the help of
the hard-working maintenance men who carried an extra seventy
chairs into the Chapel, and with the good-will of the choristers
who were squeezed tightly between the extra rows of chairs, we all
managed to fit. For that evening the Chapel seemed to possess at
least one quality, the flexible interior space of Dr Who’s Tardis.
The Arts Festival concluded with the combined Evensong in
the Lincoln Chapel. The preacher was Dr. Peter McCullough, the
Senior Dean and Lincoln’s expert in Renaissance Literature. The
three choirs split into two to sing William Harris’s anthem for
double-choir, “Faire is the heaven,” setting a text by Edmund
Spenser. Spenser’s text provided a rich source of inspiration for the
preacher. Dr McCullough considered Spenser’s acknowledgement
of the inadequacy of human praise and worship – “how then can
mortal tongue hope to express / the image of such endlesse
perfectnesse” – alongside the aspiration of the poem to do just
that. Weaving together literary and theological themes, Dr
McCullough described praise and worship as forms of self-giving
by which we co-operate with and participate in God’s recreation
of the world for good. It would be difficult to offer a more
inspiring and ennobling vision either for the Arts Festival and for
the service of Evensong with which it concludes.
While occasions like the Turl St Arts Festival Evensong stand
out in the Chapel calendar, those involved in organising and
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leading chapel services seek to make every Sunday service a special
occasion. Week by week, the students who work hardest to
achieve this goal are the organ scholars and choristers. This year,
Paul Wingfield took on the role of senior organ scholar. Over the
past two years, Paul has exerted his considerable talents to build
on the choir’s tradition of excellence. Paul’s gifts as a conductor
have been recognised beyond the College, and last year he was
chosen to be the conductor of the Oxford University
Philharmonic Orchestra. Last autumn, we welcomed Rebecca
Taylor as the junior organ scholar. She has already shown herself
to be a talented musician and able conductor. She is also a reliable
administrator, a gift which, I am told, is not universal among
musicians. This year we can look forward to an extra bit of
continuity since this is the one year in every three years when both
organ scholars return to Lincoln in Michaelmas. I am also grateful
to the Chapel Wardens. In addition to helping to prepare the
Chapel before services and welcoming those who come, they also
offer helpful advice the Chaplain (and perhaps slightly more
College gossip than is good for the soul).
A significant part of the Chaplain’s role which is not directly
related to the organisation and leading of worship in Chapel
comes under the heading of welfare. This includes being available
to students who may drop in to discuss problems or concerns.
One of the Chaplain’s welfare roles in College involves acting as
the senior member overseeing and supporting the student Peer
Support Programme. Student peer supporters undertake a 30
hour training programme during Michaelmas term which teaches
listening techniques, questioning skills, and self-awareness. The
idea behind the programme is that some students will find it
easier to discuss problems with another student rather than with
a senior member of College. This year, during Trinity term,
Lincoln’s Peer Supporters also organised a series of teas to give
finalists and first year students preparing for Mods or Prelims the
opportunity to take a break from the library. In addition to
adding another layer to the College’s welfare provision, the Peer
Support Programme teaches skills that will be useful in a wide
variety of contexts. The Programme is very popular among
students, and each year there are about twice as many applications
for Peer Support training as there are spaces.
It would be wrong to give the impression that concern for
students’ welfare is the particular property of the Chaplain.
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Anybody familiar with Lincoln will know already how pastoral
care is knit into all aspects of College life. Over the past two years,
I have been impressed over and over again by the care and
attentiveness shown by Tutors and Fellows, by College Staff, and
by the College Doctor and Nurse, for the well being of students.
This sharing of pastoral care not only makes the Chaplain’s job a
lot easier, but it contributes to the depth and richness of the
community life which continues to attract new students to
Lincoln.
George Westhaver
From the Librarian
Senior Library
My attention this year has centred a good deal around the Senior
Library collection. Several important issues were raised by the
Conservation Report carried out in the previous year and we have
started to tackle them.
One major problem identified by the Conservation Report
concerned the way the books are supported on the shelves, or to
be more specific, the lack of support for textblocks throughout
the Senior Library collection was identified. Most hardback books
are subject to the force of gravity which pulls the textblock (or
pages) of a book away from its spine. This results in the joints at
the bottom of the spine being split or widened in comparison to
the top of the spine, which puts the sewing supports under
pressure and eventually the boards become detached. The larger
and heavier books, whether folios, quartos or even fatter octavos
are usually the ones most at risk. The best way to support books
at risk is to have “bookshoes” made for them. This is skilled
conservation work as each part of the bookshoe is designed to fit
each individual book exactly. To create bookshoes for the entire
Senior Library collection will be costly but I am delighted that a
start has been made to tackle this problem this year. With the help
of a charming conservator named Bex Marriott, we now have 3
shelves of books with bookshoes on Bay A.
Another problem identified in the report (and another we
already knew about) was that there are too many books for the
available space. This has led to some shelves being overcrowded and
books double stacked on shelves. In the worst case a cupboard was
found with 5 rows of books stored on one shelf, making it
impossible to access a book at the back without removing other
books, not to mention having very long arms! Fortunately the
College has allocated a small extra storeroom adjacent to the Wesley
Room to help relieve the overcrowding of Senior Library books.
Some work was needed to make the room suitable for storing books
of this nature. In particular a heater linked to a humidistat was
installed; the heater will switch on automatically to counteract rises
in humidity.
Appropriately for its proximity to the Wesley Room, this new
book storeroom now houses the majority of the Wesley Collection
as well as a collection of books on Oxford and Oxfordshire. Moving
the books was a time-consuming and complex operation. I decided
to shelve the books in order of their height as books of the same
height and size will support each other on the shelf. Initially the
books were relisted and then resequenced in height order. Each
book was assessed and if necessary individually wrapped in acid-free
paper. Finally the books were moved over to their new home during
Trinity Term.
The removal of these sections of books has left some shelves
temporarily empty. This has been an opportunity to begin
tackling another important issue raised in the Conservation
Report. It was noted that the shelves in the Senior Library, which
date from 1739 (according to Dr Green’s Commonwealth of
Lincoln College), are in need of attention. While empty, the
College carpenter has been able to add extra support to shelves
that were sagging. He has also carefully smoothed away the rough
places and edges, where books were catching as they were taken
on and off the shelves, removed any obtruding nails and finished
the job by staining and waxing the raw wood that was revealed.
These changes are the start of a move to improve the general
preservation in the Senior Library that I anticipate will take place
over several years; it is exciting to see it begin.
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Junior Library
From the Archivist
In February this year the library was the venue for the highlight of
the Turl Street Arts Festival once again. The organ scholar Paul
Wingfield followed up last year’s acclaimed Figaro with another
very successful production, Cosi fan tutti. It was a semi-staged
production with the cast in Victorian costume and old member,
Charles Lepper, playing the part of narrator. This year the show
took place on two nights allowing more people to see it. Having
attended the first night, I can assure you it was a very enjoyable
evening.
The main business of the library is to support the learning of
the students in the College and this has continued to be the case
this year, despite all the work that has been done in the Senior
Library and the fun with Cosi fan tutti. In Hilary Term 2005 we
began a pilot scheme of extended opening hours in the library
during term. Officially the library is open to readers from 8.30 am
to 11.30 pm each day. However, some students have been accessing
the library as early as 6.30 am when the scout is cleaning while
some prefer to work during the evening and into the night and have
been staying until after midnight, with the Porter’s permission. In
view of this and in response to requests from the JCR and the
MCR, the library hours have been extended to open until 2 am
during term time. Of course, the library remains a beautiful place
to work whatever time of the day or night.
The major event in the archives this year has been the
implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
which went live in relation to the University and colleges on 1
Jan 2005. Very summarily, its principal effects are not only that
there is now a statutory right of access to most types of
information (excluding of course information already protected
by the Data Protection Act 1998) but also that this information
must be provided or made available to the enquirer within a set
time limit. These provisions apply as much to archive records as
to those held by administrative offices and, leaving entirely aside
as beyond my remit the effect on current administration
practice, these requirements could be extremely difficult, if not
impossible, for a small-scale archive unit like Lincoln’s (and very
many others) to meet.
Fortunately however provisions have now been agreed
between the National Archives and the Information
Commissioner’s Office for the protection of smaller repositories,
which if adopted and implemented as soon as possible should
help ward off the more unmanageable consequences of the Act.
They make it yet more important that as much of the archive
catalogues (and of the archives themselves) should be available
online in some form with a minimum of delay and for the
foreseeable future this will have to be the priority for the
archives. Since however this is what was already intended, it can
be seen overall as a positive development. The provisions further
empower the archives to charge in appropriate circumstances.
Formerly, charging for use of archives was a highly contentious
issue that raised more questions than it answered, but the new
environment makes it an entirely necessary option for the
protection of the service.
An archives presence on the improved College website
should not only assist compliance with the requirements of the
FOI but also provide access to a joint Oxford archive portal, a
new initiative which should be in place by year end.
Accessions of note include two sets of copies. The first
consists of correspondence describing Oxford and Lincoln
matters of the period from Richard Falkner (at Lincoln from
1733 to 1737) to the Spalding Gentlemen’s Club, generously
Fiona Piddock
Lincoln College Library is grateful to the following
alumni and Fellows who have donated books:
Dr Louise Adey-Huish
Professor PW Atkins
Paul Griffiths
Professor Keith Gull
Michael Hill
Dr Michael Mitchell
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Denis Rixson
Robert Rogers
Dr Harry Sidebottom
Dr Maria Stamatopoulou
Professor Ian C Storey
Dr Luke Thurston
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donated by Dr and Mrs M Honeybone, who discovered it in the
course of their preparation of the Club’s remarkable archive for
publication. The second is a set of 29 limericks, entitled
“Ludicra”, on Lincoln students and Fellows, composed in 1867
by Herbert Armitage James (1844-1931), a Lincoln Scholar
from 1864, later Headmaster of Rugby and President of St
John’s. The author notes that he originally wrote one verse for
every member of the college at that date, but what survives is a
selection only. These came to light in St John’s Library, who have
most generously donated the copies, together with a copy of
James’s unpublished autobiography. These limericks will be
featured in a future College publication. The fascinating photos
of Murray Glover (1954) are described elsewhere.
Many thanks not only to Dr Honeybone, St John’s and Mr
Glover but also to everybody else who has contributed
photographs, ephemera, publications or other items to the archives.
This year the appeal concerns “Imps”, of which there is only
a very broken run in the collection. From the beginning in 1920
to the “crisis” in 1956 (when an offensive passage caused the
magazine to be re-called, amended and re-issued) the run is
fairly complete, with a small gap from 1931 to 1933 (Vols
6/[all] and 7/1-5) and isolated missing issues at 1935 Trinity
(Vol 7/12), 1936 Hilary (Vol 7 [or 8] /14), 1937 Trinity (Vol
8/17); 1952 Hilary (Vol 14/1) and 1953 Hilary (Vol 14/4).
After 1956 however there are only a few scattered specimens.
Imps are missing for the following periods: the amended Vol
15/6 of 1956 Hilary and thereafter from 1956 Trinity to 1972
(after which, publication was annual, without volume numbers);
1974; 1979-86; and every year from 1993 onwards. Some of the
gaps may well be because there were no Imps published during
those years, but if that is so, and anyone can provide firm
information on the dates, I would be very pleased to hear from
them. As usual, any contributions will be gratefully welcomed.
Andrew Mussell
ACROSS
4 Person who makes furniture (6)
7 Person found at a lodge (6)
8 Pseudonym of Edward Thomas (8)
9 Inflamed swelling on the edge of
the eye (4)
10 Evergreen trees (5)
12 Prehistoric stone or hollowed-tree
coffin (4)
18 First name of Bishop Rotherham (6)
19 First name of George Eliot who
visited Lincoln College (6)
20 Woman’s name (4)
23 One side of a many-sided body (5)
27 Greek God of love (4)
28 Surname of French theologian
whose life was written by Mark
Pattison (8)
29 College founded in 1314 (6)
30 College Head (6)
DOWN
1 Lincolnshire town (5)
2 Village where Edward Thomas
lived (5)
3 Bright stuff made at Lincoln city (5)
4 College founded in 1571 (5)
5 First name of French theologian
whose life was written by Mark
Pattison (5)
6 Surname of George Eliot who
visited Lincoln College (8)
11 Middle-Eastern country (5)
13 Thames at Oxford (5)
14 Melody (4)
15 Man’s name (4)
16 Heard in the chapel (4)
17 Bishop of Lincoln, grandfather of
Oxford composer George
Butterworth (4)
21 Exeat (5)
22 To modify (5)
23 Oxford movement figure (5)
24 Island near New York (5)
25 Conical tent of the American
Indians (5)
26 People who steer boats in a race (5)
For solution see page 62
© Michael Dawney 2004
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Sir Arthur Trevor
Afghanistan, Lincoln, and India
My great-grandfather Arthur Charles Trevor was an
undergraduate at Lincoln between 1859 and 1861. At that time
there can have been few, if any, undergraduates, graduates, or
Fellows of Lincoln or other colleges whose route to membership
of the University had started in as unusual and as unpropitious
circumstances as Arthur Trevor’s. A chance remark of mine
alluding to this prompted the suggestion that I should write an
account for the College Record because the story would be of
wider interest, not least against the background of the present
phase of relations between Afghanistan and the rest of the world.
By happy coincidence, a photograph of Arthur Trevor as an
undergraduate, along with photographs of other Lincoln
contemporaries, is in an album that has recently come into the
College’s possession. This has provided additional grounds for me
putting pen to paper.
The circumstances of Arthur Trevor’s very early life were
extraordinary, and the fact that he and his six elder siblings
survived to maturity was remarkable. He was born in Jellalabad in
Afghanistan in April 1841. The town is in the rough terrain of
Afghanistan near to the Khyber Pass and the border with what is
now the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. He was the
seventh child of Robert and Mary Trevor. His father was a captain
in the East India Company’s service, which three years previously
had determined that its Army of the Indus was to invade
Afghanistan with a view to securing the north western borders of
the Company’s territories in the Indian subcontinent. Invasion
duly took place, and the elderly Shah Soojah from the royal house
of Afghanistan was brought out of exile by the British and in 1839
restored to the throne in Kabul.
There was an army of occupation in Afghanistan, and a team
of political advisors provided by the Company was installed in
Kabul under the leadership of the British Envoy, Sir William
Macnaghten. It was intended that this staff group would be used
to underpin Shah Soojah’s rule. Robert Trevor was a member of
Macnaghten’s staff. It appears extraordinary from a contemporary
standpoint (and with the benefit of hindsight in the light of what
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happened) that, along with fellow Company officers, Robert
Trevor was accompanied in Afghanistan by his wife and young
family. However, this was not unusual at the time. It reflects the
combination of confidence and bravado that had enabled the East
India Company and its officers over the previous 200 years to
exert their will over the many peoples and large land-mass of the
Indian sub-continent through diplomacy, commercial enterprise,
and force of arms.
British interference in the government of Afghanistan was not
well received. An uprising took place towards the end of 1841.
Tortuous negotiations ensued for the withdrawal of the British
army of occupation. This was to involve the evacuation of
4500 troops, and 12000 dependants and followers, who
blithely had been brought into what proved to be a highly
unstable environment – an armed population seething with
political intrigue.
The negotiations came to an abrupt end when Macnaghten
was assassinated outside the walls of Kabul during a parley about
the arrangements for the British withdrawal. Akbar Khan fired
the fatal shot. He and his henchmen, who were seeking to depose
Shah Soojah and replace him with his father Dost Mohamed,
made no effort to restrain hotheads wreaking their vengeance on
the representatives of the British. At the same time, Robert Trevor
and other British officers were seized as hostages. Within hours,
he was cut down from the horse on which he was being forced to
ride pillion, and knifed to death. His corpse was hung from a
meat hook in the Kabul bazaar, along with the torso of
Macnaghten. George Lawrence, one of the few British officers at
the negotiations who survived, wrote to Mary Trevor “acquainting
her with the fearful end of her gallant husband, an officer of rare
merit and courage”. These events presaged the ignominious
British retreat from Afghanistan.
In her Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841-2, Lady Sale
recorded for 24 December 1842: “I received a note from
Lawrence, … and had the sad office imposed on me of informing
both [Lady Macnaghten] and Mrs Trevor of their husbands’
assassination: over such scenes I draw a veil. It was a most painful
meeting to us all”. In highly hostile surroundings Arthur Trevor’s
mother was thus left a widow responsible for her five sons and two
daughters, all of whom were under the age of eleven. She was,
moreover, two months pregnant. The youngest of the children
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was Arthur Trevor, an infant of eight months.
All but the last born, a daughter, were to
survive the forthcoming ordeal; and all spent
their working lives serving in India. Arthur
Trevor was, however, the exception because he
received a university education and did not
pursue an army career. Instead, after his
undergraduate days at Lincoln, he entered the
Indian Civil Service.
The Lincoln of the late 1850s was a small
society. Undergraduate admissions had been
falling during the decade. Only 14 men
became undergraduates at the College in 1859,
and even fewer (ten) in 1860. The total
number during the 1850s was only 127 in
comparison with 150 in the 1840s. From 1860
the number of undergraduates increased. The
College had undergone a bitterly fought
election for the rectorship in 1851, and its
conduct of that election had been the subject of
considerable adverse publicity in the press.
There was also acrimony between Fellows who
were friends and supporters of one of their
number, Mark Pattison, and those who were
not. This coincided with controversy
surrounding the College being obliged to
adopt new statutes in accordance with
requirements of the 1854 University Reform
Act. Nevertheless, the various elections to
fellowships made during the decade – notably
those of Thomas Fowler, Francis Thackeray,
and the future Rector, Walter Merry – laid
some important foundations for the
improvement of Lincoln’s fortunes.
At a meeting on Chapter Day, 6 May 1859,
the eleven Fellows resolved “that an election of
two scholars be held on Saturday June 4;
candidates to call on the Rector on Tuesday
May 31…” There is little doubt that his
widowed mother’s situation would have been
an incentive for Arthur Trevor to try for a
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scholarship at an Oxford college. He had matriculated at Trinity in
December 1858, but presented himself for interview at Lincoln on
the appointed day. He was awarded one of the scholarships, which
was worth £70 per annum. It is a matter of speculation whether at
the interview his family circumstances, especially his early years of
life in Afghanistan and India, were touched on. They must have
been exceptional, and could well have been remarked upon, given
the impact the news of the disastrous British retreat from
Afghanistan in 1842 had had on the British public.
The retreat had resulted in the entire Army of the Indus,
numbering 4500 officers and men, and virtually all its 12000
dependants and followers meeting their deaths within a period
of no more than a fortnight. This occurred either at the hands
of Afghan tribesmen or as a result of the extreme winter
conditions of the march through the rugged mountains between
Kabul and Jellalabad. Only one individual from the column of
thousands reached their destination. When the news reached
Britain, it made a tremendous impact on the public. The sense
of shock on receiving the report that the entire British-led
contingent of 16,500 had perished was made the greater by the
graphic eyewitness account of the retreat and the captivity of
women and children set down by Lady Sale in her Journal. It was
published in 1843, and the book became an instant best seller.
Whether Rector Thomson was familiar with Lady Sale’s Journal
is not known. If he had been, he would have read of the
horrifying circumstances of the retreat from Kabul and the
references to Arthur Trevor’s mother and her children.
The retreat began on 6 January 1842. It was a shambles. The
winter conditions in the mountain terrain were severe. The
women and children, including Mary Trevor and her seven
offspring, initially headed the column of 16500. After a few days,
however, this party of ten officers’ wives or widows, a total of 13
children, and seven officers were taken hostage by Akbar Khan. A
few additional hostages joined them later.
For 9 January, Lady Sale recorded in her Journal that at their
overnight stop in a remote fort “Three rooms were cleared for us,
having no outlets except a small door to each; and of course they
were dark and dirty. The party to which I belonged consisted of
Mrs Trevor and seven children and [8 other adults and 2 other
children] … The dimensions of our room are at the utmost
fourteen feet by ten … At midnight some mutton bones and
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greasy rice were brought to us”. They were taken back through the
formidably rough terrain that the retreating army had followed,
past the thousands of dead troops and others, who had been either
slaughtered or frozen to death, notably in the Jagdalak Pass. Lady
Sale wrote that “The sight was dreadful, the smell of the blood
sickening; and the corpses lay so thick it was impossible to look
from them, as it required care to guide my horse so as not to tread
upon the bodies”. They made their way over stupendous passes,
across the beds of mountain streams, and along narrow mountain
tracks. Eventually they reached Budeeabad, a fort where they were
to be incarcerated for several months.
Lady Sale noted that, nearly a fortnight after being taken
hostage, “… Mrs Trevor and her 7 children and European servant
Mrs Smith …” together with herself and four other adults and
one child shared one room. “It did not take much time to arrange
our property; consisting of one mattress and resai between us, and
no clothes except those we had on in which we left Cabul”. The
next day, 19 January, “We luxuriated in dressing although we had
no clothes but those on our backs; but we enjoyed washing our
faces very much, having had but one opportunity of doing so
before since we left Cabul. It was a rather painful process as the
cold and glare of the sun on the snow had three times peeled my
face, from which the skin came off in strips”.
In her Journal Lady Sale does not mention how the ninemonth old Arthur Trevor or his siblings were looked after, or on
what he was fed as an infant. In the entry for 19 January, she
continues: “Two sheep (alias lambs) are killed daily; and a regular
portion of rice and ottah given for all. The Afghans cook; and well
may we exclaim with Goldsmith, ‘God sends meat, but the devil
sends cooks’ for we only get some greasy skin and bones served
out as they are cooked, boiled in the same pot with the rice, all in
a lump”.
Four babies were born during the eight months of captivity,
including another Trevor infant. She survived only five months,
dying in December 1842. The hostages had to endure many
earthquakes, including at least one serious disturbance, intense
summer heat, and many deprivations. Nevertheless, they were not
treated badly by the Afghans, who moved them from place to
place during the summer months. The hostages were eventually
rescued in September by a British Force that reached them from
Jellalabad. Along with the others, Mary Trevor, Arthur Trevor and
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his seven siblings were returned to the relative safety of the
Company’s Indian territories, and thence to England following
the death at Ferozepur of the infant daughter.
Following his arrival in England, Arthur Trevor was educated
at St John’s Foundation School. It was from there that he went up
to Oxford in the autumn of 1858. The 1850s was a decade of
considerable change for the University following the Royal
Commission of Enquiry and subsequent passing of the University
Reform Acts. It was also a period of significant change for the
British Raj in India. Appointments in the civil service of the East
India Company had been thrown open to competition in 1853
when its Charter had been renewed for the last time. A
committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Macaulay that
included among its members Benjamin Jowett, Fellow and later
Master of Balliol, made recommendations regarding
implementation of the system of competitive examination. These
were promptly put into practice. It is notable that it was not until
the early 1870s that the competitive system was adopted for the
“home” Civil Service.
Midway through his time as an undergraduate at Lincoln,
Arthur Trevor passed the Indian Civil Service examination in
1860. This was two years after the Company’s authority to rule
had come to an end, and the Crown had taken over full control
of the government of India. Whether, during his days in College
he became acquainted with Benjamin Jowett, who at the time was
on friendly terms with Mark Pattison, is a matter of conjecture.
He was, however, in the fortunate position of being able to
combine a family tradition of public service in India with
sufficient intellectual gifts to pass the newly established open
competitive examination.
Arthur Trevor passed his finals in Lit Hum, and went down in
1861. One of those who signed the certificate evidencing that he
had satisfied the examiners was Benjamin Jowett. Later that year
he was formally appointed a member of the Indian Civil Service
in the Bombay Presidency, and signed the required Covenant of
Service on 20 August. He was directed to travel by the overland
route to Bombay. This involved travelling through France to
Marseilles, thence by sea to Alexandria, overland through Egypt
to Suez (the canal did not open until 1869), and then by sea to
Bombay. He returned to the sub-continent in more propitious
circumstances than those in which he had left.
Over the course of the following 40 years Arthur Trevor was
appointed to a succession of increasingly important posts in the
administration of British rule in India. Members of the ICS
were paid relatively high salaries. After the Mutiny, the India
Office wanted to attract talented individuals, so it had to offer
recruits more than they could expect to earn at home. Assistant
commissioners such as Arthur Trevor would have started out on
an annual salary of £300 per year. This was about twice the
stipend of the average clergyman in the 1860s. At the most
senior level, salaries were £6000 plus annual allowances worth
several thousand pounds. These pay-scales were fixed in 1858
and, notwithstanding some inflation, remained substantially the
same for the next 90 years.
For the last five years of his ICS career, Arthur Trevor was the
member of the Viceroy’s Council responsible for public works
throughout India. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the
Most Exalted Order of the Star of India in 1898. Among his
contemporaries at Lincoln, he is likely to have been a unique
figure, not only because of the circumstances of surviving his
infancy, but also because he was one of the earliest members of the
ICS to be appointed under the Crown after passing the open
competitive examination. On his retirement from India in 1901
he lived in London until his death in 1920.
As a footnote, I should add that in the summer before I went
up to Lincoln, I travelled by car from Kabul through the Kabul
Gorge and via Jellalabad over the Khyber Pass into Pakistan. In
doing so, I little realised that in very different circumstances I was
following in the footsteps of my great-grandfather Arthur Trevor,
who was also to go up to Lincoln albeit after a longer interval and
without memories fresh in mind of the experience of travelling in
that formidable region.
Charles Lambrick (1968)
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Murray Glover and Lincoln, 1954-58
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Murray Glover (1958)
I came up to Lincoln in Michaelmas 1954. Having left my
school, Wellington College, in December 1951, I then did two
years National Service, ending up in the Gold Coast Regiment of
the Royal West African Frontier Force. (Many of my colleagues at
Eaton Hall OCTU were later exposed to terrifyingly real danger in
Korea, Malaya or Kenya. I was merely faced with extreme heat,
snakes and spiders.)
This meant, however, that I had been away from any academic
disciplines for nearly three years. The prospect of “coming back to
school” was not altogether a pleasant one. I had to try and
remember all my forgotten Latin and Greek, not least to be able to
justify my open classical scholarship. My tutor for Classical Honour
Mods was John Sullivan, and he patiently licked me back into
shape. I managed a second, much to the surprise of both of us.
At this stage, I made a determined effort to switch to Modern
Languages. I had already tried, unsuccessfully, to get on to the
National Service Russian course. However, the Lincoln authorities
were adamant that I should follow the time-honoured path and go
on to Greats. My prospective philosophy tutor, Harold Cox, gave
me dinner in his rooms and imparted this chilling news over the
brandy.
Philosophy was a closed book to me. I was taught ancient
history by a Magdalen don who killed the subject stone dead for
me. (Many years later I discovered that his consuming passion had,
all along, been racing and racehorses.) For my last two terms, (far
too late!) I was passed on to another Magdalen historian, the
famously eccentric Tom Stevens, whose first words to me were
“Draw beer, brother Glover, beer on the right, cider on the left,”
pointing towards to casks in the corner of his study.
I may be the only Greats student ever to sit the exam without
having gone to a single lecture. I spent my last term playing
billiards in the Union, and occasionally glancing at dates pinned
up on the walls of my digs. I remember my viva vividly ... whilst
other students were coming smugly out of the room after a mere
four or five minutes, I was grilled mercilessly for three quarters of
an hour on subjects I had never heard of. As I left the room with
head bowed, the worthy academics all burst into uncontrollable
laughter! In the circumstances, the third that I was given was
© Murray Glover
Those at Lincoln in the mid-1950s may well recall Murray Glover
(1954) as a man who was seldom without his Leica. Earlier this year,
Mr Glover wrote to College, enclosing with his letter a CD containing
a wealth of photographs he had taken of Lincoln and Oxford between
1954 and 1958. Friends and colleagues, sporting events, JCR parties,
the College barge, Hodge the College cat: no subject was missed by his
lens and careful eye.
Although Mr Glover retains copyright over the photographs, he has
generously allowed us to use them to illustrate this issue of Record, and
we print below excerpts from his accompanying account of his time at
Lincoln and the context in which the photos were taken. Mr Glover is
selling CDs of these and over a hundred other photos at a cost of £10
(cheques payable to H. M. H. Glover, 21 Bowes Road, Walton-onThames, KT12 3HS, e-mail [email protected]). Mr Glover has
very kindly asked that you consider making a donation of £5 to Lincoln
College at the same time by a separate cheque.
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exceedingly charitable.
Understandably, I threw myself into non-academic activities at
Lincoln.
I played squash for the College all the time I was up, including
the year when we beat Worcester in the final of Cuppers. (Harold
Cox gave the team a celebration dinner... a more jovial occasion
than the first time I had dined with him.) After only a fortnight of
my first term, I broke my left arm trying to climb in. My squash
opponents found it somewhat off-putting to play a man with his
arm in a sling, who served by flipping the ball up on the end of his
racquet first.
I also played in the College table tennis team ... having watched
the great Richard Bergmann play at the Albert Hall, I developed a
good defensive style. The Imp reported : “Having seen their best
shots returned with dismal regularity, many of Mr. Glover’s
opponents became twitching wrecks ... some, we understand, have
taken up ballet instead.”
I never made the athletics team. Having come third in the
discus event in the Gold Coast AAA championships, I volunteered
my services, but the real reason behind this was so that I could
weasel myself into the Lincoln athletics team photo, near the great
College star Derek Johnson, who won silver in the Melbourne
Olympics 800 m. in 1956. He smoked and drank with the best of
them in Deep Hall; had he trained like today’s athletes do, heavens
knows what he would have been capable of?
Having played rackets at school, and there being no rackets
The Lincoln Players perform “The Burnt Flowerbed,” a drama by
Ugo Betti
court at Oxford, I took up real tennis at the Merton St. court. In
those days there was no tuition other than from fellow
undergraduates. I managed to get into the University team, and
captained it in 1958 – undoubtedly one of the least proficient
players ever to have that honour! (Although years later, I did twice
manage to get into the semi-finals of the British Over-50 singles.)
My social activities were heavily curtailed by chronic lack of
funds. I had managed to save £300 while I was in the army, and this
had to pay all my living expenses for all the four years I was up at
Lincoln. My scholarship paid my tuition fees, but I had to find my
own battels, as well as pay for all my books, and, later, the rent for
digs. I was given no financial assistance whatsoever by my parents,
and asked for none. They were at the time paying school fees for my
younger brother and sister from my father’s meagre army pension.
For this reason I never frequented the bar, perhaps gaining a
reputation as being somewhat antisocial. My only luxury was an
occasional visit to the cinema, to see films like Les Enfants du
Paradis, and The Seventh Seal.
Girls were a complete enigma. A boys’ boarding school, then
the army, meant that I had no idea how to relate to them at all.
There were some I became fond of, but painful shyness, even after
taking tranquillisers, led to disaster. I remember plucking up
courage to hold one girl’s gloved hand on a walk, only to find
myself, a minute later, holding just the glove. Only in my fourth
and final year was I able to behave with anything like normality,
and acquire the girlfriend, (Janet Hebb, a fellow Greats student
from Somerville ... she got a good second!) who is still my wife and
friend today. We have four children and seven grandchildren.
I had become interested in photography when in Africa. A
fellow subaltern showed me how to develop and print. An
American friend then got a Leica at a bargain price for me from his
Forces PX store, and it was this I used at Lincoln. Another Leicausing Lincoln undergraduate in my year was Sir William Lithgow.
I remember being highly impressed by his study of a fallen leaf!
I took shots of everything, whether moving or static. The editor
of The Imp published many of my photographs ... and, for a term
or two, some of my poems ... until I overheard John Torrance, later
to become a top academic at Hertford College, opining that they
were rubbish. I never wrote a line of poetry again !
Lincoln was full of extremely pleasant and gregarious South
Africans in those days. You were as likely to hear Afrikaans being
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Ralph Leavis, son of the famous F.R.Leavis, was a permanent
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crossword many years ago, I graduated to that, and now do it
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Lincoln men George Willett and Terry Girdlestone were/are also
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In spring 2004 I bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV
scanner, and started the arduous task of trying to put the best of over
50 years’ output of colour slides and negatives, and b/w negatives,
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Edwardian Lincoln
Edwin G Joseph
In January, Dr Peter Hatherley (1958) made a gift to the College of
two athletic trophies, won by his uncle, Edwin G Joseph, MA, BSc,
MC (1905). Dr Hatherley included, along with the trophies, an
account of Joseph’s time at Lincoln and later life. The Record felt such
an account on the Lincoln of one hundred years ago.
This letter accompanies a small gift of two trophies won by my
late uncle almost a century ago at Lincoln College sports. The
plated cup was for second place in the High Jump, in 1906, but he
triumphed to come first the following year to be presented with the
silver cigarette case beautifully engraved with the College coat of
arms. They say a lot about the College a century ago, and I hope
this interest may allow them a place among the College’s
memorabilia.
They are in memory of a quiet gentleman who shunned any
limelight. He came from a high achieving family at the heart of
London’s Jewish society; Edwardians. After graduating from
Lincoln he went on to take a BSc at London University, and then
received a Commission to serve with the British Army in the
First World War, in a bicycle regiment. He was awarded the
Military Cross after attending a wounded soldier in the machine
gun fire in the trenches, and recalled being treated for his own
injuries in the first instance by the Army veterinary surgeons
present for the horses. After the war he became a schoolmaster
for a short time. He had always fancied a quiet rural life of
horticulture, so in the 1920’s he built a house and developed his
garden in Kent, among the orchards and nurseries of the Garden
of England, where he remained for
half a century until his death.
Athletics was his major love, as a
member and ultimately Treasurer of
the London Athletic Club, where he
was an official at the time of Roger
Bannister’s four-minute mile. He
had chosen his home near a useful
railway station, as he only travelled
by train. He refused to use or travel
in a car, even when his wife, my
aunt was driving to accompany him
to the event.
He maintained regular contact
with his family in London, and with
Lincoln where he attended the
Gaudies occasionally, and it was his
encouragement which led me to
apply to the College in 1958. I hope
the details of his life will add interest
to these memorabilia. I cannot
vouch for the absolute accuracy of all
these details, but I am confident in
their outline.
Dr P. R. Hatherley (1958)
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Alumni News
1940’s
Cecil Graham (1945) was recently elected the first Patron and a life
member of the Hout Bay & Llandudno Heritage Trust (20 km outside
Cape Town), which he co-founded with his wife ten years ago. The
Trust has the distinction of resuscitating the oldest working battery of
cannons (nine of them) in the world - cannons manufactured in Sweden
in 1752 and mounted in Hout Bay by the Dutch East Indies company
in 1781, as protection against attack by the English. The Trust is
approaching the Guinness Book of Records to have this endorsed.
Fr. Magnus Wilson, O.S.B. (1948) is a member of the Benedictine
monastic community of St Michael’s Abbey, Farnborough. The
abbey has been described as “France transplanted into England”
and is perfect for singing the traditional Gregorian Latin office. The
Trust’s small acreage is sufficient for cows and calves, hens, and
bees, quite apart from book publishing and their own literature.
The Revd Theo Harman (1949) was elected to a Fellowship of Hatfield
College, Durham University in the year 2000. He acts as a College
Tutor there and continues with his research in Christian Spirituality.
1950’s
Gerald Chown (1952) has been, for the last six years, a member of
the Governing Council of the University of Bath, chairing its Audit
Committee. Before that he had a career in business until retiring in
1989 to take up a position, for ten years, in the NHS as a Hospital
Trust Chairman.
Dr John Bertalot (Organ Scholar 1953) retired in 1998 as Director of
Music of Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton, New Jersey, and as
Adjunct Associate Professor of Rider University, Princeton. He was
awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Rider University in
Princeton University Chapel for his ‘tremendous musical achievements
and contributions to sacred music.’ On his return to England he was
made Director of Music Emeritus of Trinity Church, Princeton, and
Cathedral Organist Emeritus of Blackburn Cathedral (where he had
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served for 18 years before moving to the USA). In 2003, at a special
service in Coventry Cathedral he was made an honorary Fellow of the
Royal School of Church Music in recognition of his ‘major
contributions to church music on both sides of the Atlantic, and
especially to the invigoration of the musical training of children.’ He
has written four best-selling books on choir training which are
published on both sides of the Atlantic, and is shortly to publish a fifth.
In the past year, The Rt Hon Lord Bernard Donoughue (1953)
has become chairman of the Starting Price Regulatory
Commission, and chairman of the Review of the Future Funding of
Horseracing. He has also published an updated paperback on his
Memoirs, The Heat of the Kitchen, Politico’s Publishing (2004), and
this year published Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in
No. 10, Jonathan Cape (2005).
Terry Harper (1953) was recently elected to the Honorary Fellowship
of the Society of Glass Technology. Formal admission will be at the
September meeting of the SGT in Sheffield, which celebrates the
100th anniversary of the University of Sheffield, and the 90th
anniversary of the founding of its Department of Glass Technology.
Congratulations to Dr Michael Springate (1954) on winning the
2004 Oxford and Cambridge Club Annual Snooker Tournament.
Professor Ranjit Roy-Chaudhury (1955) was appointed
Chairman of the National Sub Commission in Macroeconomics
and Health, a commission set up by the Indian government in
order to bring about extensive changes in the health care system in
India. Recently, on the 14th July, the Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok bestowed the honorary degree of Doctor of Science on
him at a convocation presided over by Her Royal Highness Maha
Chakri Princess Sirindhorn.
Dr A.J.E. Smith (1955) recently had a 2nd edition of his The Moss
Flora of Britain and Ireland published with Cambridge University
Press.
Professor Alan Rosenthal (1956) this year has written, produced
and directed a one-hour film “Stalin’s Last Purge” for European and
US TV. He has co-edited (with John Corner) New Challenges for
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Documentary, which was published by Manchester University Press
in May 2004; and has given a keynote speech at University of
Florida State on ‘History on TV’.
Michael Crouch (1957) has recently had his 4th book, The
Literary Larrikin, A Critical Biography of T.A.G.Hungerford,
published by the University of Western Australia Press (2005).
Michael Gibson (1959) represented New Zealand at the 2004
Bridge Olympiad in Istanbul, and played against the Seniors teams
of 18 other countries. Highlights were a maximum win against
England and a good win against the Gold Medallists, the U.S.A.
Anthony Hudson MBE (1959) has had a fascinating and difficult
year as Master of the Skinners’ Livery Company following in the
footsteps of Walter Oakshott (Rector 1954-1972), Master 1960-1,
and Simon Keith (1957), Master 1992-3,. This year the Skinners’
Company has been thriving with Lincoln alumni with Robin
Sherlock (1956) and Robert Rogers (1968) both liverymen, and
Sir Colin Lucas (1959) attending a major livery dinner as one of
the principal guests. During the last year Robin Sherlock has also
been Master of the Parish Clerks, whilst John Avery (1962) has
been Master of the Vintners’. Professor David Roberts (1959) is
Emeritus Professor of German at Monash University, Melbourne.
He is also a Member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
He has recently written, with Peter Murphy, Dialectic of
Romanticism, London: Continuum Books (2004), and, with Johann
Arnason, Elias Canetti’s Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power,
Transformation, Rochester, New York: Camden House (2004).
1960’s
Professor George Irvin (1960) was remarried recently to Lindsay
Margaret Knight (St Anne’s, 1965). He has also recently retired as
UHD Professor of Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The
Hague. At present, he is Visiting Fellow at ICER (International
Centre for Economic Research), Turin, Italy, where he is working
on a book on the Economics of the EU.
Professor David Pearce (1960) took early retirement from
University College London in October 2004 after 21 years as
Professor of Economics. He decided it was time to finish the array
of textbooks and monographs he had started but never completed.
He continues in consultancy as an environmental and resource
economist. In 2005 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award
from the European Association of Environmental Economists.
Professor Roger Allen (1961) is currently Professor of Arabic &
Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and also
Director of the Huntsman Programme in International Studies and
Business. He has attended and offered lectures in Arabic at conferences
in Kuwait, Sharjah, Dubai, and Cairo (where he was the subject of a
one-hour television “special,” due to his continuing involvement with
the works of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Naguib Mahfouz). He
is also involved in (and deeply concerned about) the new and highly
focused interest in the lengthy process of learning the Arabic language,
much fostered by the American government and its agencies, with all
the concomitant ramifications for universities where the language is
taught. His most recent publications include translations of two Arabic
novels from Morocco, both by BenSalem Himmich: The Polymath,
American University in Cairo Press (2004), which is about the
historian, Ibn Khaldun; and The Theocrat, American University in
Cairo Press (2005), which is about the schizophrenic Shia Caliph in
Egypt, Al-Hakim. A series of articles (based on the lectures noted
above) have been published in Arabic journals in the Middle East.
Tony Baker (1962) retired from the Department of Transport, where
he was Director of International Aviation Negotiations, on reaching the
age of 60 in March 2004. He loved his job, which took him all round
the world, but is remaining active working as an aviation consultant.
Antony Cooke (1962) was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of
the Aga Khan Education Service (AKES) in Uganda in 2003, having
previously served as the Chief Administrative Officer/Education
Programme Officer since 1999. He originally joined the AKES in
1997 as a Deputy Head in Nairobi, Kenya, but then transferred to
Kampala, where some of the Aga Khan schools were being
repossessed and refurbished after falling into disrepair during the
Ugandan civil war that started in 1972. Prior to his involvement
with AKES he taught at Charterhouse for 24 years (till 1990) before
becoming Headmaster of Kamuzu Academy, Malawi (1990-94).
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Professor Patrick L-M. Fein (1962) retired from Rhodes
University, Grahamstown, South Africa in December 2003 from
his post as Professor of French and Head of the School of
Languages. In September 2004, the Rhodes Senate and Council
elected him Professor Emeritus.
Professor Brijraj Singh (1962) will take a sabbatical this autumn
prior to his retirement on 1 February 06 from his professorship of
English at Hostos Community College of the City University of
New York. By this time he will have completed more than forty
years of teaching, twenty in India and just over twenty in the
United States. He had already taught for three years when he went
up to Lincoln to read English for a B.A. in 1962; after going down
in 1965 he taught at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, at North-Eastern
Hill University, Shillong, and then at Delhi University before
joining his present college, Hostos, in New York. He also spent
1968-71 at Yale gaining a Ph.D.
Ray Busbridge (1963) retired from his position as Sales Director of
the Hong Kong office of Mapleleaf Foods (Canada’s largest food
company) last year, and has just completed a one-year Certificate
course in Teaching English as a Second Language at Concordia
University in Montreal. He is now enjoying teaching at a
community centre in Montreal. He is also registered as a volunteer
for CESO (Canadian Executive Service Overseas) and expects to
perform some short-term contracts for them during the next few
years, while he continues to teach.
David Kennard (1963) lives in San Francisco and runs his own
production company, InCA Productions Inc., which creates
documentary films. In 2004, he won the annual Deems Taylor Award
from ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers, for the two-hour television special on Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
Symphony, seen nationally on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
network. Last October also saw the premiere of a film he co-wrote and
directed starring John Cleese, called “Wine For the Confused”, a onehour special which blended humour and information (seen on the
Food Network on American cable TV, and shortly to be issued as a
DVD). On November 2, 2005 the premiere of a new program he has
produced on the subject of Global Warming will take place. This
program has already premiered in Canada, and will be seen on PBS in
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the US. “The Power of the Sun”, another one-hour documentary that
he has produced and directed, follows a few weeks later, celebrating the
centenary of Einstein’s discovery of the photon, and the application of
this insight in the development of solar power.
John Pett (1963) was appointed to the East Dorset Bench as a
Justice of the Peace in June 2004. He was also appointed a Director
of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association in 2004.
Roger Tabor (1964) retired at Christmas from a 37-year career
with the Post Office and Royal Mail. In March he also stepped
down as Chairman of the Board of the Public Health Laboratory
Service, which was finally abolished by statute in March this year.
He has recently been nominated by the Chartered Institute of
Public Finance and Accountancy (of which he was President in
2002-03) to the Professional Accountants in Business Committee
of IFAC (Accountancy’s world body). He is also organist at St
Matthew’s church, Oxhey in Hertfordshire.
Paul Griffiths (1965) has recently published The Penguin
Companion to Classical Music, Penguin (2004), and The Substance
of Things Heard: Essays in Musical Performance, Boydell & Brewer
(2005). He has also released a CD: There is still time (ECM, 2004),
a piece for speaking voice and cello, in collaboration with the cellist
Frances-Marie Uitti.
Professor Laurence Barron (1966) has recently been elected to a
Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Dr David B. Young (1966) is now an attorney, specialising in insolvency,
bankruptcy, and reorganisation (rescue), with the firm of McGinnis,
Lochridge & Kilgore, LLP in Austin, Texas. He writes a great deal for
publication, and is a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education
(CLE) programs. Recently, the College of the State Bar of Texas
awarded him the Outstanding CLE Article Award for the second time;
he is the only person to have received this honour twice. In addition,
he is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy programs presented by the
Practising Law Institute (PLI), a national legal education organisation
for practicing attorneys. Bankruptcy courts repeatedly cite his PLI
work, and, recently, his work on preferences and fraudulent transfers
has been posted on the International Insolvency Institute web site.
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Richard Hardie (1967) has been appointed Chief Operations
Officer (Europe) for UBS Warburg.
Loren Kieve (1968) joined the law firm of Quinn Emanuel
Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP in their San Francisco office in
April 2002 as a partner. Before that he was Principal Vice President,
Assistant General Counsel, Manager of the Legal Department and
Head of the Litigation and Claims Group at Bechtel, a $14 billion
company with over 40,000 employees. In addition to managing the
Legal Department, he directly oversaw all of Bechtel’s domestic and
foreign litigation and claims. Before joining Bechtel, Loren was a
partner with Debevoise & Plimpton in Washington, D.C., where
his practice focused on major complex disputes and legal problems,
including both civil and potential criminal cases, as well as internal
investigations, corporate compliance and arbitrations. San Francisco
Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine have named him, for the
second year in a row, as one of the top “Super Lawyers” in the Bay
Area. In his spare time, Loren is also a Trustee and former Chairman
(1997-2001) of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native
Culture and Arts Development (“IAIA”), Santa Fe, New Mexico
(U.S. Presidential Appointment with Senate Confirmation). He also
serves as an Advisory Board Member and Chair of the Development
Subcommittee of the Centre for Comparative Studies in Race and
Ethnicity (“CCSRE”) at Stanford University.
Derek McDonnell (1968) has lived in Australia for the past twenty
years where he runs Hordern House (www.hordern.com), an
antiquarian book business and occasional publisher, with his
partner Anne McCormick. They also have a farm in the Southern
Highlands of NSW where they produce small commercial
quantities of high-grade extra-virgin olive oil.
Robert Rogers (1968) has held the position of Clerk of the
Journals, House of Commons since October 2004, and is now due
to take up his appointment as Principal Clerk of the Table Office,
House of Commons in October 2005. He co-wrote with Dr
Rhodri Walters the 5th Edition of How Parliament Works, Longman
(2004).
Professor Bill Wells (1968) was appointed Head of Department of
Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield in 2004.
That year he was also appointed Vice Chair of the Research Grants
Board, Economic and Social Research Council. He has co-authored
with his wife, Professor Joy Stackhouse, of the same department,
Children’s Speech and Literacy Difficulties 1: A Psycholinguistic
Framework, Whurr Publishers (1997); and, following this, together
edited Children’s Speech and Literacy Difficulties 2: Identification and
Intervention, Whurr Publishers (2001).
Professor Ian Storey (1969) has recently published with A.L.
Allan, A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama, Blackwell (2004). He has
also become a Lay Reader at the Church of St John the Evangelist
in Peterborough, Ontario.
1970’s
Terry Haywood (1970) was awarded an MBE in the 2005 New
Year’s Honours List for “services to education in Italy”. This refers
to his work not only in helping to set up new schools in Rome,
Modena and Como, but also in promoting the concept of
“international” education. Apart from serving as Headmaster of the
International School of Milan since 1985, he has been Chair of the
Board of Directors of the European Council of International
Schools, and, more recently, a member of the planning team
working to establish an “Alliance for International Education”.
Dr Michael Duggett (1970) is now working in Brussels at the
International Institute of Administrative Sciences as its director. He
is on secondment from the CMPS, Cabinet Office. One son has
recently married and is writing a PhD on William Wordsworth in
St Andrews, the other is studying in Manchester.
Dr Roger H. Martin (1971), President of Randolph-Macon College,
spent the fall 2004 semester as a college freshman at St. John’s College
in Annapolis, Maryland. Martin’s sabbatical at St. John’s, known for its
Great Books curriculum, afforded him the opportunity to immerse
himself in freshman life, read the great classics such as Plato and Homer
and even join the college’s crew team. Martin’s unique experiences have
captured significant media attention, starting with an article published
in the Sunday, Nov. 28, Washington Post. After being picked up by the
Associated Press, Martin’s story has appeared in more than 100
newspapers throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
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Richard Pooler (1971) was appointed, in April 2005, a full-time
Immigration Judge in the newly created Asylum and Immigration
Tribunal, having previously been an Immigration Adjudicator. The
post entails hearing appeals against immigration decisions, including
appeals against the refusal of the Home Office to grant asylum.
David Smith (1971) was appointed Director of the United Nations
office in Washington DC in the summer of 2004, acting as UN
representative to the US Congress, the White House and the State
Department during a period of some turmoil in the relationship
between the US and the UN. David works closely with the UN
Secretary-General and the heads of major UN agencies to maintain
US funding of UN programmes across the globe. A father of four,
he reports finding time to join World Banker John Mitchell (1970)
for the annual cricket match between parents and students at the
Washington International School.
Richard Eyre (1972) is pleased to announce the recent publication
of his first novel, The Club, Penguin (2005), a whodunit set in the
world of Television. He has worked in the media since leaving
Lincoln, first in advertising, before becoming Chief Executive of
Capital Radio. From there he went on to become Chief Executive
of ITV before taking over from Greg Dyke as CEO of Pearson’s TV
business, making programmes in 35 countries around the world.
After an epiphany on a BA flight into Luxembourg, he turned his
back on a lucrative air miles package and set about writing the
book. He now holds a number of non-executive directorships in
various media companies but his real ambition is to follow Lincoln’s
real novelist, John le Carré, and get started on the next book.
Simon Brilliant (1973) has been appointed a part time deputy
adjudicator to HM Land Registry.
Sir Rod Eddington (1974), chair of the Lincoln College Fellowship
Campaign, has recently stepped down as Chief Executive of British
Airways after more than five years in the position. He has accepted
an invitation from the British Government to advise the Treasury
and Department for Transport on the long-term impact of transport
infrastructure decisions on the UK’s productivity, stability and
growth prior to his return to Australia. During his time at British
Airways he was named as the aviation industry’s leading executive in
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the Airline Strategy Awards in 2003, as judged by his peers. In their
second annual CEO Brand Value Report, Citigate Dewe Rogerson
named him the FTSE 100 CEO with the most media visibility and
positive image in the UK’s national press in the 12 months until 30
November 2004. He was knighted this year in The Queen’s Birthday
Honours List and will carry on working as Senior Non-Executive
Director for Rupert Murdoch’s World Corp and hold other
directorships in his “retirement”.
Professor Roland L. Trope (1974) has this year published two
books: in April, Checkpoints in Cyberspace: Best Practices for Averting
Liability in Cross-Border Transactions, co-authored with Gregory E.
Upchurch, American Bar Association (2005); and, in August,
Sailing in Dangerous Waters: A Director’s Guide to Data Governance,
with E. Michael Power, American Bar Association (2005). He has
also been appointed co-editor of the Digital Protection Department
for IEEE Security & Privacy (a bi-monthly journal published by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), which in the past
year has published three of his articles: (i) ‘A Warranty of
Cyberworthiness’; (ii) ‘Directors’ Digital Fiduciary Duties’; and (iii)
‘Averting Security Missteps in Outsourcing’ (co-authored with E.
Michael Power). He also had an article published in Business Lawyer
entitled: ‘“Staple Article”: In Defense of Betamax and Its Progeny’
(discussing a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court). He
continues (in his capacity as Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Law at the U.S. Military Academy) to host and organize the
annual West Point Seminars, which this year included for the first
time cadets from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and their
Commandant.
Air Commodore Rob Cunningham (1975) has recently returned
from Baghdad after a tour of duty as Deputy Senior British Military
Representative in Iraq. He was mainly involved in Coalition
assistance to the Iraqi Interim Government in preparing for the
elections held in January 2005. His next appointment is as
Commandant of the RAF College, Cranwell, and Director of
Recruitment for the RAF.
Robert Faber (1975), project director of the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography, was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship
in the 2005 New Year Honours list.
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Professor Peter Ackers (1976) was promoted to Professor of
Industrial Relations & Labour History at Loughborough University
Business School in April 2004. For the previous four years he had
been an editor of Labour History Review, the journal of the Society
for the Study of Labour History. He is currently writing an
intellectual biography of Professor Hugh Clegg, a founding figure
in the ‘Oxford School’ of British Industrial Relations. From
September 2004 Peter will be on study leave, visiting the Indian
Institute of Management, Calcutta on a Leverhulme Study Abroad
Fellowship. He lives in Loughborough with his wife Moira, a textile
artist and adult education teacher. They have two sons, Harry (23)
and George (21) and a daughter, Helen (17).
Richard Daly (1976) has recently been appointed as the Solicitor
to the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.
Harold Levy (1976) was formerly chancellor of the New York City
Public Schools between 2000 and 2002. As Chancellor, he
overhauled the system’s recruitment efforts, starting a Center for
Recruitment and Professional Development so as to attract better and
more qualified teachers, expand international recruiting, and upgrade
certification and professional development programs for existing
teachers. He also created the New York City Teaching Fellows
program, which recruits highly qualified career changers. He is now
an executive vice president for Kaplan, Inc., where he helps manage
a diversified education company that owns seventy for-profit colleges
in the U.S. and abroad, in addition to the well-regarded test
preparation business. He also teaches a course on public education as
an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College. In
addition he is a member of the Cornell University Council, where he
has garnered numerous awards and citations, including the
University Settlement’s Distinguished Service Award, and the Jerome
Alpern Distinguished Alumni Award from Cornell’s School of
Industrial and Labor Relations. He is married to Patricia Sapinsley
and has two children, Hannah, 13, and Noah, 11.
Jonathan Luxmoore (1976) currently works from Oxford and
Warsaw as correspondent for The Tablet, Catholic News Service and
other newspapers and agencies. He has four children with his
second wife, Jolanta Babiuch, the daughter of a former Polish prime
minister, and his books include The Vatican and the Red Flag (1999)
and Rethinking Christendom (2005).
Chris Belchamber (1977) is now an independent trader and analyst
in Maryland and Virginia in the US. After leaving Lincoln he
worked for Friends Provident (life assurance) and Noble Lowndes
(pensions consultancy) before gaining a job with a British
stockbroker as an analyst in 1984. In 1986 he was hired by CSFB in
London as a bond analyst, which developed additionally into
arbitrage trading on the UK government bond desk. This led to him
writing a 400-page book on the UK government bond market,
which was published by CSFB and subsequently in hardback version
in the US. In 1989 he was recruited by J.P. Morgan to run their UK
government bond desk (Sales and Trading), where he managed to
stabilize what was then a struggling business. In 1990, he was given
the additional responsibility of running the bank’s Sterling Fixed
Income Investment Portfolio, which subsequently led to him joining
the proprietary trading desk when it started in 1993. In 1997 he left
J. P Morgan, having risen to the position of Managing Director, to
move to the US and to start trading his own account.
Professor Alistair Fitt (1977) is currently the head of the School
of Mathematics at the University of Southampton, and has recently
published a series of research papers on fluid flow in human eyes.
Professor Simon Phillpot (1977) joined the University of Florida
as a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in November
2000, after 16 years on the scientific staff at Argonne National
Laboratory, near Chicago.
The Revd Dr Graham Tomlin (1977), in September, left his post
as Vice Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, to become Principal of
the St Paul’s Theological Centre based at Holy Trinity Brompton in
London.
Professor Andrew Knapp (1978) was appointed Professor of
French Politics and Contemporary History at the University of
Reading from 2005.
Lt Col Paul Longley (1978) is currently serving in West Africa as
the Senior Directing Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces Command
and Staff College in Accra.
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Martin Pailthorpe (1978) is working as a producer/director for
BBCtv in Bristol, specialising in extreme locations and environments.
He has just returned from a six-week trip to Everest Base Camp in
Tibet, recceing a proposed project for the Discovery Channel,
following a 2006 climbing expedition to the summit. Previous
projects have included filming with Ray Mears and Chris Ryan,
everywhere from the steamy jungles of Honduras to Siberia, at –35.
Professor Chris Walsh (1978) is now Dean of Humanities at the
University of Chester.
Lesley MacKay (1979) and her family have moved to St Lucia in
the West Indies. She is running her training business, Lesley
MacKay Associates, across the Caribbean and also in the UK.
1980’s
From September 2005 Joe Gauci (1980) will be Director of Studies
at Malvern College, having joined Malvern in 1989.
Cristiano Sala (1980), as of March 1st 2005, joined Borland, a
multinational software company, as Technical Director and Services
Manager for Italy.
Fiona Bates (1981), after 18 years, was persuaded to move by her
husband, Bruce, to his native New Zealand in November 2003.
Their four kids are developing ‘keewee aksints’ very quickly and
love the outdoor lifestyle.
Christopher Milton (1981) was promoted in December 2004 to
General Manager Europe for the Electronic Materials division of Rohm
and Haas (an American chemical group). He is, otherwise, married with
two boys, eight and four, and living in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
Professor Thomas C. Berg (1982) is a Professor of Law at the
University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minnesota. He is also
Director of Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought,
Law, and Public Policy. In 2004 he was awarded the Alpha Sigma
Nu Book Award from the Association of Jesuit Colleges and
Universities, for Religion and the Constitution, co-authored with
Michael McConnell and John Garvey, Aspen Publishers (2002). He
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has also published The State and Religion in a Nutshell, West Group,
(2nd edition 2004).
Jane (1982) and Andrew Cooper (1982) are living in Hong Kong
with their four children. Andrew is Head of Pacific Rim Equity
Linked Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch and Jane has founded
“Bareknuckle Shakespeare”, a venture designed to bring
Shakespeare to new audiences, with profits supporting education
projects around Asia.
The Revd Sally Davies (1982) has been, since November 1999,
Chaplain to the former Royal Naval College at Greenwich, now
The Old Royal Naval College. This post includes the roles of
Chaplain to the Chapel, Chaplain to Trinity College of Music,
Associate Chaplain to the University of Greenwich, and Chaplain
to the Greenwich, Deptford & Rotherhithe Sea Cadet Unit! The
post, initially for five years, was recently made permanent.
Rebecca Liberto, née Kingston, (1982) is now living in Sydney,
Australia, working as a master of English at Sydney Grammar
School in the heart of Sydney CBD.
Richard Webster (1982) humbly went back to school and obtained
a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 2002. Since
then he has been working as an attorney in the environmental
practice group at Arnold & Porter LLP in New York City. He now
lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Jill, and two children,
Louise, 14, and Jed, 11. He continues to backpack up mountains,
restrained only by the need to carry food for four, advancing age,
and the protests of his party.
Dr Peter Clarke (1984) moved to Hong Kong two years ago to do
voluntary work, and has now taken up a post as an English
language instructor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Julian Lewis (1984) and his wife, Regitse, are pleased to announce
the birth of the first child, Olivia, last September.
Keltie Mierins (1984) has been working on contract at the Canadian
Museum of Civilization for over a year now after staying home for
several years raising a family. She is presently working on an
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important collection of archaeological shoe fragments dating back
to the late 17th century, which were excavated in Quebec City. It is
hoped that this research project will help to fill a gap in the history of
shoes, since other collections, mostly from shipwrecks off the Canadian
coast, have been dated to either an earlier or later timeframe. She has
conducted the bulk of the research and is now working on a report
for publication in 2006 for Laval University, Quebec City.
Simon Gluckstein (1986) was appointed Managing Director of
Hawkepoint Partners Limited. He joins Hawkpoint from
Citigroup where he was a Managing Director specialising in media
and general corporate finance advisory work. He and his wife Dana
Gluckstein, née Roberts, (1985) who is the Managing Director of
Penhela Associates, have two children.
Professor Edward Chaney (1985) was recently made a
Commendatore of the Italian Republic. He has also recently edited
The Evolution of English Collecting: Receptions of Italian Art during
the Tudor and Stuart Periods, Yale University Press (2003), and his
latest publication, Inigo Jones’s ‘Rome Sketchbook’, Roxburghe Club,
is presently in proof.
Delia Kempley (1986) is a partner at Nabarro Nahanson solicitors
specialising in commercial property development. She was named
this year in the Legal 500 Hot 100 and Legal Business’s Top 50 as
deal winner of the year for the regeneration and development of
Kent Thameside – a new town in the Thames Estuary. She is also
on the committee responsible for sustainable development in the
South East, and a regular lecturer on property development for
both Hawksmere and Henry Stewart.
Dr Tony Curzon-Price (1985) has returned to the UK after 3 years
in Silicon Valley to be appointed CEO of Arithmatica, which he cofounded in 1998. Arithmatica designs the logic for mathematically
intensive silicon chips, and their designs will be in most next
generation graphics and video games processors.
Dr David Hall-Matthews (1986) is pleased to announce his
forthcoming book from Palgrave MacMillan entitled Peasants,
Famine and the State in Colonial Western India.
Professor Elliot H. Gertel (1985) recently presented an illustrated
lecture as part of the Association of Jewish Libraries’ fortieth annual
conference in Oakland, California (June 19-22, 2005), on ‘Library as
Museum: or, Research in Two and Three Dimensions’ on the Jewish
Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris in the
University of Michigan Special Collections Library. The presentation
paper has been accepted for publication in the 2005 AJL Proceedings.
Along with two others, he co-curated an exhibition, “Portrait of a
People” (April 10-August 19, 2005), consisting of materials from the
above-named collection and co-authored and edited the exhibition
catalogue. Along with three other Michigan faculty colleagues, he has
just completed an article entitled ‘The Shoah Foundation’s Visual
History Archive: a University Library Partnership’ for the autumn
2005 issue of UM’s International Institute Journal.
Alison Culliford (1986) now lives in Paris and is in the second year
of a fashion diploma at the Lycée Paul Poiret. She published her
first book, Paris Revisited, Chrysalis Books, in 2002, and is due to
publish a new, hip guide to the city, Fun Seeker’s Paris, Greenline
Publications, in November 2005.
Martyn Atkins (1987) continues to work as a Clerk in the House
of Commons, recently enjoying (if that is the correct term) a stint
as Clerk of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and
Clerk of the Regulatory Reform Committee. In September 2004 he
took up the post of UK National Parliament Representative in
Brussels, principally responsible for keeping the Commons and its
committees au fait with EU political developments from an office
in the European Parliament, and ensuring that the interests of the
UK Parliament are represented at EU level.
Tessa Boase (1987) was married to Nicholas Glass, arts
correspondent for C4 News, this May. She is still working as a
freelance journalist for the national newspapers.
Dr Richard Kortum (1987) was married to Theresa Markiw, a
professional artist and foreign diplomat with the U.S. State Dept in
June 2003. Recently, in June 2005, he was granted tenure and
promoted to Associate Professor of both Philosophy and Humanities
(Cultural and Art History) by East Tennessee State University. For the
2004-2005 academic year he was selected as a Fulbright scholar and
has been lecturing and researching at the University of Languages in
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Baku, Azerbaijan. He has also been creating a new American Studies
undergraduate degree program there and in addition has been serving
as an advisor to the Ministry of Education and to the parliamentary
committee on Science and Education in Azerbaijan on sweeping
higher education reforms and the Bologna Process. In summer 2004,
whilst on a university research grant, he discovered a major prehistoric
petroglyph site in the remote Mongolian Altai; his first paper from this
expedition was published this February in the leading international
journal on rock art, INORA (International Newsletter on Rock Art),
in France. In spring 2004, his philosophy paper ‘The very idea of
design: what God couldn’t do’ was published in the leading
international journal, Religious Studies, based in King’s College, Univ.
of London; in this paper he proves the logical impossibility of an
intentional creation by a pre-existent divine being. He has recently
edited a volume of selected writings in the western literary tradition,
which will be published this August by Kendall-Hunt.
Dr Fania Oz-Salzberger (1987) has been appointed the director of
the Posen Research Forum for Jewish, European and Israeli Political
Thought at the University of Haifa.
Robert Purvis (1987) and Heidi Purvis, née Swallow, (1987) are
pleased to announce the birth of their fourth child on 2nd May
2005 at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, a daughter, Bethia
Marianne to be known as “Beth”, a sister for Josie, Will and Iona.
Garth Williams (1987) is currently the Assistant Head and Head
of Middle School at Alleyn’s School, Dulwich. He and his wife,
Juliet, have two children, Rose (3) and George (1), and are
expecting their third child in December.
Dr Dominic Berry (1988) was promoted to a Senior Lectureship
at the University of Leeds in 2004.
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Professor Denis Renevey (1988) and his wife, Patricia, celebrated
the birth of their second child, Joachim Emmanuel, on 29 January
2004. Professor Renevey recently took up the chair of Medieval
English Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, on 1
September 2005.
Professor Christoph Riedweg (1988) has been appointed to be
Director of the Swiss Institute in Rome for 4 years (from April 2005
to February 2009).
Professor Eli Salzberger (1988) has been elected the next Dean of
the Law Faculty of the University of Haifa (taking effect from
October 1st).
Kassie Smith (1988) recently had a book published by Sweet &
Maxwell: Competition Litigation in the United Kingdom, and is
continuing to practise as a barrister specialising in European and
competition law before the UK courts and the ECJ in Luxembourg.
Helen Wright, née Kendal, (1988) was awarded a doctorate in
Education from the University of Exeter, which she undertook after
having taken up the post of Headmistress of St Mary’s School in
Calne. Her husband Brian Wright (1989) is working part-time as a
computer consultant, and their son Harry (born 3/6/03) is thriving.
Tom Begich (1989) is now a nationally recognized trainer in the
field of Juvenile Justice and Restorative and Community Justice,
and runs a small firm, CWResearch, focused on media, training
and strategic planning in the fields of Justice and Education. He has
also recently released his fourth Music CD, Cool Blue Light, which
is available through www.tombegich.com.
1990’s
Richard Dyter (1988) is now Executive Director of the World
English Agency. He is married with three children aged 6, 4 and 2,
and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Since 2004 Professor Paul Tam (Fellow 1990) has held the
position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of
Hong Kong.
Sophie Hiller (1988) has abandoned a career in the City as a tax
and trust lawyer to become a secondary school teacher in a
Hounslow comprehensive.
Sophie Tucker, née Prottey, (1990) was recently married on the
25th June 2005 in Castle Combe.
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Dr Sabine Jaccaud (1991) and her husband Pedro Catarino are
pleased to announce the birth of their son, Hugo, on 7 October
2003. They are currently living in London, and Sabine is a
Communications Director at ABN AMRO.
Zoe Richardson, née Etherton, (1991) is enjoying her career
change in teaching and is expecting her first child at Christmas.
Geoffrey Weston (1991) is currently living in Jordan with his wife
Jessica. They recently celebrated the birth of Nina in June 2005,
who is thriving on the motto “sleep is for the old”. He is a VP of
Network Planning and Alliances for Royal Jordanian Airlines.
Dr Karen Willis, née Hutchinson, (1991) and her husband,
Simon, are pleased to announce the birth of the son, George James
Willis, on 13th March 2005. They are currently living in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Tanweena Zahrar Chowdhury (1992) married Mehran Islam on 6
July 2002 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Till this year, they lived in New
York, where Tanweena worked as a consultant for UNDP and then
as Governance Adviser to the UK Department for International
Development, leading on public financial management and civil
service reform in Bangladesh. Since February this year, Tanweena
has been working in DFID’s Policy Division in London, on better
approaches to working with drivers of change, and institutional
development, in developing countries. Tanweena and Mehran are
now settled in London.
Nick Dawes (1992) married Rachel Burridge on 16 July 2005 at St
Mary’s Church, Twickenham.
Dr Franco De Angelis (1992) has recently been promoted to
Associate Professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern,
and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC)
in Vancouver. His scholarly accomplishments have also been
recognized at UBC through the awarding of a Distinguished
University Scholar Chair. His latest book project involves writing a
social and economic history of ancient Greek Sicily for Oxford
University Press.
Karen DeToro, née Sasveld, (1992) married Jeffrey DeToro in
September of 2003. They are expecting their first child in October
of this year.
Adam Hamdy (1992) produced his first two short films and sold
his first feature script in 2004. He has a second feature script going
into production in late 2005. He also graduated with a BA in
Philosophy from the University of London in summer 2005.
Nic Harker (1992) and his wife, Chiara, are pleased to announce
the birth of their first child, Alessandro, on 20 November 2004 in
Brussels.
Matthew Hurles (1992) and Elizabeth Hurles, née Aust, (1992)
are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Edward Alan, on 20
January 2005.
Arvinder Mangat (1992) has been promoted to Head of
Commercial Mortgages for Xbridge.com, a leading on-line
financial services company.
Donald Ricketts (1992), and his wife Katrin, still live in Brussels,
and this year celebrated the birth of their third child. Donald works
with the communications consultancy Fleishman-Hillard.
John Rux-Burton (1992) and his wife, Becky are pleased to
announce the birth of their second child, Eloise Iona on 17 July
2004.
Alexander Schofield (1992) recently left Allen & Overy to join
The Capital Group as a member of their in-house legal team. He
also completed the Plymouth to Dakar rally in January 2005.
Emma Callan, née Robinson, (1993) was married at Easter this
year to Drew Callan; they have a son, Noah Adam. She is currently
Head of Chemistry at Magdalen College School.
Sacha Reeves (1993) is now a civil servant and is working for the
UK Debt Management Office in London. This follows spells at a
variety of investment banks in the City and in Tokyo.
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Back Row (l to r): R. Gerber, M. Caldecott, A. Baker, C. Burton, J. O’Regan, R. Doble, R. Brenner, J. Dickman-Wilkes, S. Breen, Do
D. Zapero-Maier, R. Wood, H. Maier, D. Diaz, A. Graham, J. Tinston, D. Elfant, S. Minson, P. Cowie, M. Mclaren,
D. Pavila, H. Biro, D. Almansi, D-Q. Nguyen, M. Edwards, L. Bougueroua, C. Robey, J. Marchbank, C. Farquhar, E. Ivanyushenkov
T-T. Le, T. Hao, H. Balala, M. Lightfoot, A. Grogg, O. Porritt, C. Rogers, R. Simpson, N. Gupta, C. Kent, S. Hay, N. Young, S. Neilso
G. Saltin Semerari, N. Li, W. Chow, C. M Xie, R. Taylor, C. Sharrocks, K. Simms, R. D’arcy, K. Brandon, T. Plowman, D. Brady, C. B
K. Sample, I. Clark, L. Allchin, R. Cornuelle, N. Gourvitch, C. Matthews, P. Cotterill, L. Trinder, H. Quincey, D. Bland, A. Peppia
Front Row: A. Von-Breitenstein, R. Karlson, P. Burhoj, D. Green, S. Liddell, N. Sears, O. Munn, J. Risinger, J. Terwitt
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ominic Phillips, H. Tillson, Daniel Phillips, A. Napier, J. Buerger, M. Hall, H. Mortimer, T. Oya, M. Inoue, D. Shultziner, R. Connell
n, S. Davies, R. Robinson, J. Levy, D. Bunney, R. Zuber, A. Bowen, D. Witter, B. Watkins, E. Armstrong, K. Tanzhaus
va, J. Rawling, H. Riekeles, L. Caballero-Bendixsen, C. Mccroy, C. Murphree, A. Ribi, A-C. Bourcier, K.Cowan, R. Parkes, F. Rickard
on, C. Wittayawarakul, M. Bruderer, J. Hu, J. Nagarajan-Ahamarshan, N. Azman-Abdul-Rahim, A. Saran, A. Peychers, R. Simmonds
Blume, N. Smallbone, P.Clark, M. Mogni, J. Chen, M. Xu, K. Greenman, S. Finch, S. Diamond, R. Wood, N. Russell, A. Loganathan
iatt, H. Wozniak, R, Rotman, C. Walton, K. Barrett, R. Haden, L. Fraser, H. Cox, M. Freeman, E. Grainger, E. Winstone, N. Chow
tte, N. Haig, G. Gee, S. Sibbel, A. Maple, T. Hargreaves, S. Bello, A. Sienaert, A. Khan, A. Fuster, P. Jones, G. Turturea
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Dr Stephanie Cook (1994) was married on Saturday 28 May to
Mr Daniel Carroll, an equine vet, formerly at Pembroke College,
Cambridge. The wedding took place at St Margaret’s Church,
Buxted, East Sussex with the reception at Dan’s parents home in
High Hurstwood, East Sussex.
Dr Lucy Macfarlane, née MacKillop, (1994) and Christopher
Macfarlane (1994) are currently living in Sydney, Australia
working as a nephrology registrar and in-house lawyer respectively.
They are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Lily
Alexandra, on 25 May 2005.
Dr Rachel Blaikley (1994) and Mark Woolrich (1992) were
married on 3 September 2004. Lots of Lincoln friends were there
to help celebrate.
Rick Geer (1994) and Jill Bister (1994) were married on 28th
May 2005 at St Bartholomew’s Church Corsham Wiltshire.
Laura Merrill, (1994) and her husband Richard Grahn (Wadham
1994) are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Ella on
31 March 2004.
Tore Rem (1994) has been appointed Professor of English literature
at the University of Oslo.
Kate Smurthwaite (1994) recently compeered and performed in
the “Amused Moose Hot Starlets” stand-up comedy show at the
Pleasance Joker Dome at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this
summer.
Olivia Dickinson (1995) and Stephen Muers (1995) were
married in College on 8 January 2005.
Dr Alexandra L. Lesk (1995) and her husband, Dr Paul Blomerus
(Brasenose D.Phil Mech. Eng., 1998) celebrated the birth of their
first baby, Sebastian Alexander Blomerus on 13 April 2005. In
addition, in early April, she was appointed an Honorary Fellow of
the Department of Archaeology at the University of Nottingham,
having just received her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the
University of Cincinnati on 20 March 2005 for a thesis entitled: “A
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Diachronic Examination of the Erechtheion and Its Reception”.
She is also presently directing an excavation in Greece.
Zoe Tromans, née Underhill, (1995) has been accepted to study for
a Masters in Comparative and Public Law at Birmingham
University and will start in September.
Martin George (1996) is currently teaching English at a number of
Junior High Schools in northern Japan.
Hannah Driver (1997) married Jonny Kirsop (1996) in Otford,
Kent on 17 September 2005.
Helen Jenkins, née Mosley, (1997) qualified as an actuary in June
2004. She has recently left Zurich Financial Services and is now
working for St James’ Place Capital, still as an actuary. In October
2004 she married Gareth Jenkins.
Jamie Laing (1997) splits his time between Washington and
Ottawa working for Jane’s Strategic Advisory Services, the
consulting arm of Jane’s Information Group, where he manages
Jane’s US, Canada and Mexico business development program.
Ben Rowswell (1998) was recently, from the summer of 2004 to
the summer of 2005, Canada’s diplomatic representative to Iraq.
He has now returned to the Foreign Ministry in Ottawa.
Daniel Stattin (1998) received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
in Law (in Uppsala) in April this year, and has been appointed
Senior Lecturer in Private Law, in particular Corporation Law, at
Uppsala University.
Tania Viarnaud (1998) is now working for Barclays in Canary
Wharf in the International Strategy Department.
Dr Victoria Keevil (1999) is a Senior House Officer at Poole
Hospital NHS Trust. She is currently in the middle of her MRCP
examinations, and aims to become a registrar in elderly medicine
once her examinations have been completed.
Christian Langkamp (1999) is due to finish his business
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administration studies this August at the RWTH Aachen. He is
presently organising the Oxford Alumni Rheinland Branch, which
is going very well.
Daniel Watts (1999) continues to run PidgeMe.com, the exclusive
email service for Oxford alumni, and has recently introduced
equivalent services at other universities including Cambridge,
UCL, Warwick, Bristol and Leeds.
Rebecca Wright, née Willcox, (1999) was married on 7th May this
year in Auckland Castle to Mr Oliver Wright.
2000’s
Kate Barker (2000) and Stuart Barker (St. Hugh’s, 2000) are
pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Amelia (Milly), on
18th December 2003, in The Hague, Netherlands.
Matthew Haley (2000) has been working, since September, for
Bonhams, as a Book Specialist in the New Bond Street office.
Captain Craig Mullaney (2000) recently married Dr Meena
Seshamani (1999), on May 7th in Morristown, New Jersey. Apart
from their wedding, Meena also received her medical degree from
the University of Pennsylvania on May 15th. They have now moved
to Baltimore, Maryland where Meena has begun a medical
residency in Otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins and Craig has taken
up the post of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of History at the
US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Yik Ying Teo (2000) was married to Ms Mary Chong in June
2003. Since leaving Lincoln he has been awarded the prestigious
Lee Kuan Yew Graduate Scholarship for excellent leadership and
contribution to the community.
Dr Jonathan D. Farley (2001) is a mathematics professor currently
based at Harvard University. He was a visiting member of the
Lincoln College Senior Common Room in 2001-2002. He was one
of only four Americans to be named a Fulbright Distinguished
Scholar to the United Kingdom. Dr. Farley earned his D.Phil. in
Mathematics in 1995, after winning Oxford University’s highest
mathematics awards, the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson
University Prize, and a Lincoln College Prize, in 1994. In 20052006, he will be a Science Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for
International Security and Cooperation. His work applying
mathematics to counter terrorism has been discussed in The
Economist Magazine, on Fox News national television, and in the
New York Times. The company he co-founded with Lincoln old
member Dr Lizzie Burns (1995) (Hollywood Math and Science
Film Consulting) has been featured on the front page of The Times
Higher Education Supplement and in the Daily Telegraph. They have
served as consultants for the hit US television crime drama
Numb3rs.
Judith E Tonning, née Gallagher, (2001) and Erik Tonning
(2001) were married in August 2003, and are pleased to announce
the birth of their first child, Tobias, on 28 April 2005. They are
both remaining in Oxford: Erik on a research fellowship at the
Centre for Christianity and Culture, and Judith on a doctoral
scholarship in Theology at Regent’s Park College.
Dr Rafal Zakrzewski (2001) has recently had his DPhil thesis,
Remedies Reclassified, published by Oxford University Press (2005).
Dilshad Marolia (2002) was married on October 9, 2004 in
Montreal, Canada to Zal Dabhoiwala.
Qianqian Du (2003), having completed her MSc in Economics at
Lincoln, has gone on to take a PhD in Business Administration at
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Sudha Udyanda Muddaiah (2003) completed her BCL in 2004.
She is currently working as a Legal Consultant for a Company
called Reliance Industries Limited in Mumbai.
Shruti Vidyasagar (2003) completed her master’s degree in law, the
BCL, in October 2004. She is now an associate with Ashira Law, a
law firm in Bangalore, India. She handles non-litigation matters in
the areas of Intellectual Property Rights, Property Law and
Company Law.
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Obituaries As of 30th June 2005
Our apologies to Charles Peter Regnier (1963) who is indeed alive
and well.
Vivian H.H Green
The Revd Vivian Green, DD, Rector of Lincoln from 1983 to 1987
and a Fellow of the College from 1952, died on 18 January 2005,
aged 89.
A Cambridge graduate (from Trinity Hall), he had been a
schoolmaster before becoming Chaplain of Lincoln in 1952. Already
with research studies in medieval church history to his credit, he wrote
several textbooks, of which his Renaissance and Reformation (1952)
went through many editions and reached several generations of
A-level students.
He was devoted to Lincoln, where he served for many years as
Senior Tutor, and eventually succeeded Lord Trend as Rector. He wrote
several studies of his predecessor, Mark Pattison, and in 1979 The
Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427-1977, an excellent and
comprehensive record of the College. Well known in Oxford for his
green leather trousers and stridently-checked jackets, without any
connection of the world of espionage but with a talent for observant
inconspicuousness, he was also acknowledged to be a source for his pupil
David Cornwell/John Le Carré’s character George Smiley.
Following the sad loss of Vivian Green, a funeral and later
memorial service were held in Oxford. Following are addresses from
three of Dr Green’s closest colleagues and friends. Many alumni have
queried what they can do in memory of someone who meant so much
to them at a formative time in their lives. The Cornwell Trust has
established the Vivian Green Student Assistance Fund and, of course,
the Vivian Green Fellowship in History was also established some time
ago in the College. Alumni are welcome to support either or both of
these funds if they would like to remember Dr Green in this way.
Vivian as Teacher, Inspiration and Friend
He was a preacher who, in the sixty years I knew him, never
preached to me, never pulled rank, never asked me why, never said
‘don’t do it’ or ‘I told you so’.
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Always took me with a
pinch of salt, which was the
way he liked to be taken
himself: not as a great divine,
not for his academic
distinction or his intellectual
powers or the great stores of
human
and
academic
knowledge that remained
with him to the end.
But as a friend and equal,
a travelling companion, a
fellow walker. As someone to
share a good meal and a giggle
with. Or fulminate against the purblind stupidity of politicians, a
constant theme.
At Sherborne School, where I was a pupil and he a chaplain and
then housemaster, he was quickly spotted by my fellow misfits as
vaguely seditious – and as a trustworthy bridge between the boys
and Authority.
His face in those days was disfigured by an unsightly growth
which earned him the merciless nickname of Gumboil Green. But
to us dissidents that gumboil was a symbol of his apartness from the
pack. It went with his disregard for manly sports and distaste for the
school’s addiction to Spartanism and corporal punishment.
If he never expressed these feelings in as many words to us boys,
he didn’t need to. And when I insisted on leaving the school early
and fled to Switzerland, I felt I took his blessing with me.
And when I came back, here he was at Lincoln, waiting as if by
a miracle to shoehorn me into the College despite my lack of
qualifications. And when the vacation arrived, we walked.
And how we walked!
Those were the days when Vivian was still three parts a country
vicar in the Victorian mould. In Somerset, where his mother lived,
we walked, and Vivian preached in the country churches that he
loved the best.
In Selworthy, above Minehead. On North Hill. Or let’s take the
bus to Porlock and walk back. To get to Culborne Church, the
smallest in England, you took the coast path and there it was, tucked
away in a woodland comb quarter of a mile up the beach. Lorna
Doone’s church at Oare. Did he preach there too? I expect so.
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Vivian once told me that his path to God was through
landscape, but he didn’t need to. It was all over his rapt face when
we walked.
And though I no longer recall a single word of his sermons, I
know they were sensible, and erudite, and gentle, and sure to be
respectful of my feelings. Sometimes in my youthful vanity I
supposed they were actually written for my benefit, which must be
the definition of a good sermon. And perhaps one or two even
were, because Vivian was fully aware that he was my lifeline.
*****
In his adored Switzerland, where as a child he had walked with his
parents, and where I sometimes think his heart was, we also walked,
backpacking from valley to valley under the spell of his
encyclopaedic knowledge of the country.
His book on the Swiss Alps has not been bettered, but I never
in my life heard anyone mangle Swiss place names the way he
could: we would go from Lauterbrunnen to Wengen and from
Wengen up the Jungfrau. We would schmooze at a favourite
restaurant in Grindelwald, and not even the inhabitants would have
recognised his pronunciation.
On our hike to one remote valley we met an old peasant who
asked us who had won the war. We told him Churchill and he was
very pleased. On our way to another we were nearly blown to
pieces. As we reached a high pass, a bearded castaway waved a red
flag at us and Vivian advised me to ignore him. A moment later we
were flat on our faces with boulders flying over us. Twenty yards
further forward and we would today be holding up a hydro-electric
dam on the way to Arolla.
I remember very clearly how Vivian picked up his spectacles
and, having cleaned the mud off them, perched them comically on
the tip of his nose. Then he did a funny voice, whose I forget, but
it wasn’t quite his:
“For a moment,” he confessed, “I was tempted to invoke very
different gods to the one my cloth professes.”
But his outrage smouldered on. It wasn’t being blown up that
infuriated him. It was what the dam-builders were doing to his
Paradise. Back in England, he vented his wrath in a children’s story
about Swiss bears who rise in revolt against the desecration of their
valley. I did the illustrations, which I suspect was Vivian’s purpose
all along: he wanted to give me a leg-up. The publishers, the way
they do, turned us down flat. Another great masterpiece bit the
dust, and stayed there.
*****
Who was Vivian for me? A good shepherd and a proxy father certainly.
Not much wrong with that. But, best of all, he was a true, wise and
most constant friend. Discreet, ribald, a great listener and empathiser,
fearless and resolute when his convictions were challenged.
No wonder then, when I was searching for a character to guide my
readers – and myself – through the fiendish complexities of my
fictional plots, that I should have turned once more to Vivian for my
support – even if, with the deviousness of the novelist, I didn’t tell him.
George Smiley must have all the qualities I lacked: Vivian’s
patience, his sagacity, his discretion, his memory. And that peculiar
loneliness that comes from knowing and seeing a lot that you can’t
do much about.
George Smiley must be a natural confessor, dependable unto
death, a rock. Vivian was all of that. He must have entertainment
value, and unexpected strengths. Yet he must abhor violence, as
Vivian did, and exert a gentling influence over the impetuous –
even if that meant curbing his own impetuosity in the process.
Like
Vivian,
Smiley must love his
walks.
In the mistaken
conviction that he is
ungainly,
Smiley
must splash out huge
sums of money on
really bad clothes. (I
don’t think that was
Vivian’s view of
himself at all, actually.
I think the actor in
him just loved to
dress up!)
Best of all, he
must be a man in
whom weaker souls
Sketch by David Cornwall for The Imp,
find refuge – a gift
featuring Rector Keith Murray, Wallace
that Smiley, I’m
Robson (Rearview) and Vivian Green
afraid, exploited to
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the hilt but Vivian never would, and never did.
Vivian never compromised. He never called it quits. He hated
bullies and stood up to them all his life. And he triumphed. As a
scholar. As a humanist. As a bon viveur. As a prolific and accessible
historian and writer.
But, above all, as a friend.
David Cornwell (1952)
Vivian as Mentor
Many of us will first have met Vivian at our interviews. So it was
for me, when I came to be interviewed for a Darby Fellowship in
Modern History. My nervousness was the greater because I had
grown up as a historian with Vivian’s Renaissance and Reformation.
Yet I sensed even then, at that interview, and afterwards grew to
know profoundly, that there was something soothing about Vivian.
He had that ability of the best teacher to make you seem, even
become, cleverer than you were. He gave you time and silence to
talk, and if you then fell into a pit of your own making, he would
help you out. Arriving at Lincoln to teach all those periods I had
rashly claimed to know about, periods which Vivian himself had
taught, and written about extensively, I discovered that for Vivian
all historical knowledge was his province. Even within that Oxford
tradition, where tutors were generalists, Vivian’s historical range was
extraordinary; from the early Middle Ages to the present day (not
that he regarded the most recent events as properly history). As
historian, he was equally comfortable and confident with the broad
sweep, with the whole history of Christianity, as with the far
narrower confines of this College’s past, for here, too, all human life
was to be found, which was Vivian’s abiding interest. Vivian’s
passion for history stayed with him until the end, for he was always
reading, reading, and his memory never failed him (or failed to
surprise the rest of us).
All history was Vivian’s province, but he was especially at home
in the eighteenth century. Historians of that century learn from
reading its authors to be suspicious of enthusiasm, to observe the
vices and follies of mankind. It was those lessons which Vivian put
to use in The Madness of Kings. At Lincoln, too, at my arrival, were
other eighteenth-century historians; J.B Owen and Paul Langford.
I remember wonderful conversations, mordant humour, and walks
– for those were more leisurely times – around Christ Church
meadows, where we dilated not only upon history but also upon
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the vagaries of our colleagues. I fear that these must have been our
colleagues in the Senior Common Room, for I only recall Vivian
once at a Faculty meeting, where we had been impelled by Paul
Langford for some knife-edge vote.
Although Vivian was a great observer of the passing scene, and
of the human condition, he was remarkably unjudgemental,
tolerant, charitable. His mind was extraordinarily open, and
remained so. In our game to try and shock Vivian, we always failed.
He had, of course, been Chaplain, but it is not given to every
Chaplain to have Vivian’s acute sympathy for human frailty. He had
a particular understanding of those who did not have an easy path
in life. In the best way of Oxford tutors, he knew that the tutor
should be on the undergraduate’s side; mentor and teacher, rather
than judge. I never had a formal tutorial with Vivian (as Ian
Doolittle did), but I imagine that there was something of the
confessional about them. In those silences, which were part of every
conversation with Vivian – which David Cornwell captured so
eloquently – Vivian understood things without your telling him.
Vivian was not only history tutor, of course, nor historian of the
College, but played a leading part in the whole commonwealth of
Lincoln, as Chaplain, Senior Tutor, Sub Rector, Rector (I cannot
imagine him as Senior Treasurer of Amalgers). He came from a time
when tutors were more likely to know every undergraduate. But his
fellow historians were especially blessed to have him as their
particular colleague or tutor. They will not forget him as host at
Calendars, or those joyous moments when Vivian got out what he
called his ‘discs’.
Vivian was a wonderful companion. But he also knew how to
be alone, was accustomed to solitude. He would retreat to Burford,
to Calendars; there to walk, to read, to write. For Vivian, writing
was as natural as breathing; a daily exercise; pleasure rather than
penance. He had great inner reserves; but also physical resources, as
anyone who visited Calendars in mid-winter can attest. Once
Dennis Kay and I were invited to lunch. In deep snow and a power
cut, we found Vivian cooking coq au vin for us over an open fire in
his kitchen.
It is one of the paradoxes of Vivian’s life that he was a member,
indeed a pillar, of great institutions – the Church of England, the
University of Oxford — while remaining in many ways radical,
even subversive. Here was a historian who seemed the embodiment
of ancient wisdom, who could write a history of Christianity, who
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could be splendidly solemn and sonorous, even grave, when need
was. We will not forget the resonance with which he read the Senior
Fellows’ lesson. Yet he was also deliciously childlike. We remember
his delight in Miss Piggy, his improbable leather trousers, the ties
which pleased him, his filling the pockets of his dinner jacket with
chocolates after College feasts; his Toad-like ventures in his car.
That paradox best seen, I suppose, in the glee with which he
paraded in his DD robes. This was part of Vivian’s self parody, for
he was always likely to see the ludic possibilities of the most
establishment occasions, and this was the actor in him.
It was William Scoular’s genius to recognise the actor in Vivian,
and to cast him as Canon Chasuble in his production of The
Importance of Being Earnest. Perhaps this was the unique occasion
upon which the Canon was played by a real Doctor of Divinity.
This role was the apotheosis of a certain side of Vivian, and the
beginning of a singular friendship, which inspired those who
witnessed it. They shared great festivity and fun, but also adversity.
William’s frequent visits and daily telephone calls sustained the
latter part of Vivian’s life, perhaps especially as his physical, if not
mental, life retracted in the quotidian round of the nursing home.
We remember Vivian’s amplitude of mind and spirit; his
generosity, his sweetness. We should learn from that mind which
grew broader with age, rather than narrower. Though he always
understood that homines sumus – we are but men – we sometimes
tried to do better for him. We treasure his gift of friendship. I am
not alone here in counting Vivian’s friendship as one of life’s great
blessings. Thank you, Vivian.
Susan Brigden
Vivian as Colleague
Today we celebrate the life of Vivian Green, and more particularly
that part of it, a very large part, that belonged with Lincoln College
from 1952 until his death. Vivian was a historian to his fingertips,
and would want to be placed in historical context. I hesitate to
repeat what he said on this subject within these walls for it has just
that tinge of irony with which he loved to garnish his writings.
History, he remarked, was superior to theology, for history is the
gateway to truth. Well, in the history of Lincoln, Vivian Green will
take his place as a figure of lasting significance, not so much for
what he did, though that was considerable, but for what he was.
Three Fellows of Lincoln in the last hundred years achieved
something that is quite rare, an identification with the College so
intense that for successive generations they somehow embodied its
essence. One was William Warde Fowler, the eminent classicist and
natural scientist at the beginning of the twentieth century, the
second Keith Murray, Bursar and Rector in the middle of the
century, and the third he whom we celebrate today for much of the
latter part of the century.
It seems unthinkable that Lincoln Green as some knew him
could have been associated with any other college. Yet he was not,
as he would be the first to recount, the chosen candidate as chaplain
and history tutor, but the beneficiary of the victor’s refusal to
administer communion to the Rector of the day, who happened to
be a member of the Church of Scotland. A party was sent to resummon Vivian for interview and to the relief of all, his
churchmanship stood the test of ministering to a Scottish Calvinist.
For both sides, this was fortunate. Vivian entered into his element
in a college that seemed to have been designed for someone of his
values and tastes. Its antiquity, its intimacy, its visual charm, its
unpretentious but quiet self-confidence, its communal warmth,
provided the perfect setting for his own needs and for his delight in
meeting the needs of others.
Vivian wrote many books but those that traced the history of
Lincoln are surely the best, suffused as they are with his deep love
of the college. The emphasis is always on those who dwelled in it
rather than its buildings or its finances. His encounters with the
great figures of Lincoln, John Williams, Lord Crewe, John
Radcliffe, John Wesley, Edward Tatham, Mark Pattison, convey an
extraordinary sense of intimacy. One feels that in the panelled
Senior Common Room Vivian could interact with them almost as
he could with his own contemporaries. Nor was this history as
sentiment. In fact Vivian was not a romantic at all. He had a hardheaded appreciation of the realities of change and did not expect his
own times to be kinder than those that he recorded. But Vivian’s
history was a usable history, something seeking the communal selfunderstanding that is necessary in long-lived institutions. I
remember his discussing a title for his great history of the College
and settling on the Commonwealth of Lincoln College. It was and
remains the ideal and real way to conceive of our society.
Although history was crucial in Vivian’s life and sympathies, his
appeal to others was not dependent on it. What that appeal did rest
on is an interesting question. There are qualities that Vivian would
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not have wanted to claim for himself. Though a fine historian, he
did not think of himself as a deeply original scholar. Though a
much loved tutor he was not one of those whose intimidating
intellect and absorption in the first class mind will be recalled with
awe. Though he held at one time or another practically every office
in College, he did not see himself as an administrator, or a strategic
thinker let alone, Heaven help us, a driven visionary. Though he
relished his own idiosyncrasies he was far too pragmatic and
sensitive to others to be considered one of Oxford’s legendary
eccentrics. Yet in the everyday life of the College, in the human
relationships which are ultimately crucial in such a place, we cannot
doubt the extent of his commitment and his achievements. And the
key to this was his gentle, practical, understated wisdom and his
fundamental benevolence, his good nature. Vivian loved railing at
the ephemeral obsessions of an outside world that he refused to take
too seriously. Yet I never heard him express a malicious thought, or
even a very selfish one, a test which few of us could satisfy. In recent
weeks I have received countless recollections from the many former
students who encountered him in one or other of his roles.
Running through all of them is this generosity of spirit, not I think
an unvarying characteristic of any of those great Lincoln figures
whose lives he recorded. It is none the less what elevates him to the
Lincoln Pantheon alongside them.
There are other ways of putting it, of course. Last night, at the
Lincoln College Boat Club Dinner, I was talking about Vivian to an
alumnus who was a student during his Rectorship. He made a remark
that Vivian would have cherished. ‘Top man!’ he said. ‘Top man!’
Paul Langford, Rector
Henry Samson (1929)
E. H. M. Samson M.B.E. (Henry) died on the 2nd May 2005. He
was born in Altrincham, Manchester, on August 10th 1910, going
up to Lincoln College to read mechanical engineering, after
Uppingham, in October 1929. After Oxford he worked for MG in
Abingdon and in 1934 drove round the world in a ‘J’ type via
Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India and the
United States. On his return he became a government factory
inspector. He joined the RAF on the outbreak of war and was based
at Henlow, Bedfordshire where bomber engines were assembled
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from parts cannibalised from damaged irreparable engines. He spent
the last year of the war in Denmark after its liberation. After the war
he went into business with his brother and ran a shoe repair and dry
cleaning business which serviced a large part of southern England.
He sold the business to his nephew in 1988, but continued working
well into his eighties part-time as an accountant for one of his exemployees. His first marriage in 1936 produced a daughter, but did
not survive the war. He remarried in 1946 and had a second
daughter. From 1947 until his death he lived in the same house
where his hobbies were gardening and his model railway in the attic.
He is survived by his second wife and both his daughters.
M. R. Sinclair
Anthony Locke (1932)
Anthony Locke, who has died aged 91, came up to Lincoln from
Royal Colchester Grammar School to read Law in 1932. After
Lincoln, he spent over a decade as an English master at Colchester
Boys’ High School, and then later took over, along with his sister,
the family builder’s merchants business. He was a keen player and
coach of tennis and chess, and had been the President of Colchester
Chess Club since 1967. Although he did not often visit the College,
he was a strong supporter of it, and left a bequest that will help to
ensure the College’s future financial health.
Maurice Le Clerc (1932)
Maurice Le Clerc died on 15th December 2004 aged 91. He appears
to have been the only Irish undergraduate in Lincoln at the time and
was also the only one studying Botany. Little is known of his academic
achievements, but he was very proud to have rowed for the College.
Shortly after leaving Lincoln, he moved back to Ireland where
he spent much of his time as a farmer. In his late 40’s he took up
the post of Manager of the Johnstown Castle Estate in Wexford,
which was then part of the Irish Agricultural Research Institute. He
worked there for 20 years and very much enjoyed combining
agricultural research with the management of the Victorian Gothic
Castle and grounds.
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J B Wilkinson (1934)
Mr J B Wilkinson, MA, BSc, FRSC died on 10 January 2005 aged
88. He was an Open Scholar at Lincoln, going up in 1934 to read
Chemistry under N. V. Sidgwick. After graduating, he worked for
Unilever, first as a Works Manager and then as Director of Research
at the toiletries division in Isleworth from 1958 until his retirement
in 1974. His grand-daughters Susan and Helen, both currently at
Somerville College, are the fifth generation of chemists in the
Wilkinson family.
Richard Wilkinson
Leslie Falk (1937)
Leslie A. Falk, M.D., died peacefully on November 28 at Wake
Robin retirement community in Shelburne, Vermont, USA.
He was born April 19, 1915, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of
Albert and Eleanor Allina Epstein. Les attended public schools in
St. Louis, Missouri, and then the University of Illinois. He began
medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, where, as a
second year student, he was one of the first Jewish Americans to
win a Rhodes Scholarship.
Les’s years in England (1937-1940) changed the direction of his
life. For three years he worked closely with the team that ultimately
developed penicillin. Les studied lysozyme and, with Ernst Chain,
discovered that it is an enzyme with anti-bacterial qualities; he also
created a device to manufacture penicillin in usable quantity.
He completed his medical studies at Johns Hopkins University,
where his mentor was the historian and sociologist of medicine
Henry Sigerest. Following medical school and residency at Johns
Hopkins, he joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Kept out of
active duty by asthma, he was assigned to the U.S. Senate
Committee on Wartime Health and Education (the Pepper
Committee), where he helped produce a major report on the need
for health insurance, as well as legislation that started the National
Institute of Mental Health. In the aftermath of World War II, he
worked on relief and post-war reconstruction as medical director in
a devastated area of Byelorussia for the U.N. Relief and
Rehabilitation Association. Upon his return, he directed the U.S.
Public Health Service program of health services for migrant farm
workers in the southeastern United States.
Les was Area Medical Administrator of the United Mine
Workers Health and Welfare Fund in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
from 1948 to 1967. During his 19 years in Pittsburgh, he was
active with the Urban League, NAACP, the Unitarian Church, and
many other civil rights and anti-war organizations.
Inspired by the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, he was a
founder and leader of the Medical Committee for Human Rights,
which developed medical services for civil rights workers and black
Mississippians. That led to his recruitment by Meharry Medical
College in Nashville, Tennessee. He joined the faculty as chair of
the Department of Family and Community Medicine, where he
established a Family Practice Residency and inspired many classes
of medical students until his retirement in 1989.
As a medical student at Johns Hopkins, he was in charge of
hosting the featured speaker for a meeting of the Association of
Medical Students, Joy Hume. He immediately fell in love with her.
They were married in 1942, and began a 44-year partnership of
intertwined family, community, and political activities.
He was predeceased by his wife, his brother Leon Falk, and his
grandson John Nicholas Falk Seltzer. He is survived by his four
children (Gail Falk and her husband Strat Douthat, Ted Falk and
his wife Leila, Don Falk and his wife Mima and Beth Falk and her
husband Daniel Herman); nine beloved grandchildren (Kate and
Thomas Douthat, Abram, Ariana, Luna, Laurel, and Phillip Falk,
and Matthew and Rachel Herman); and Helen Tannen, the
companion of his last years.
Gail Falk
Wilfred Harry Rhodes (1942)
Wilfred Rhodes came up to Lincoln from Leeds Grammar School
in January 1942 as one of three scholars to join the college in that
term. Lincoln’s buildings were at that time being used as
accommodation for the nurses from the wartime hospital set up in
the Examination Schools and Lincoln’s undergraduates enjoyed the
hospitality of Exeter College, where Wilf quickly made many
friends, of whom I was privileged to be one, and became a popular
member of the JCR.
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During his first year he read for Honour Moderations and
combined those studies with parades and lectures at the Oxford
University Air Squadron and enjoyed such social life as wartime
Oxford afforded. In December 1942 he joined the Royal Air Force
and served as a pilot until 1945 when he returned to read Greats in
a restored and rejuvenated Lincoln under the dynamic and
enthusiastic Rector Murray.
Wilf had a cheerful and affable personality and always played a
prominent part in college life – he was a successful President of the
JCR and represented Lincoln at tennis and squash. He excelled on
the rugby field, was captain of the College team and played for the
Greyhounds. He was Secretary of the Greyhounds and was elected
to Vincent’s Club. He continued to play tennis almost to the end
of his life and retained the musical interests which he had enjoyed
at Lincoln. After graduation he had a successful career as a
schoolmaster. He was headmaster of Queen Mary’s School,
Basingstoke from 1964 to 1972 and went on to become
headmaster of George Abbot School, Guildford until his
retirement in 1986.
Lincoln meant much to him and he attended old members’
functions whenever he could. Although our meetings became
infrequent as the years passed we kept in touch and I remember
him, as will all those who knew him at Lincoln and since, with
affection and gratitude for a friendship which endured for over fifty
years. He leaves a widow, Betty, a son and three granddaughters.
Richard Holloway (1942)
Alan Grenville Finch (1946)
Alan Finch was a keen Lincolnian, a versatile public servant and a
devoted family man.
From Liverpool’s Quarry Bank Grammar School, he went up to
Durham University for English and Classics, and then served in
India throughout the Second World War. Coming up to Lincoln to
read law under Harold Hanbury, he was one of those Keith Murray
recruits (Aubrey Parks, Peter Parker, Vincent Wears,…) who
famously reignited Lincoln’s pre-War spirit. They fathered an
informative, winning and humorous guidebook, adorned the teams
and societies, and (this is how I met him) were benevolent ‘lords of
misrule’ to those up for entrance exams and awards.
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Alan’s career was notable for its humanity: penal reform,
M.F.A.W. (now I.F.A.W.), social work, Oxford Hospitals, the
Cheshire Homes – all culminating in twenty-four years at the
B.B.C. (peaking as Head of Employment and then Head of
Appointments). ‘Retirement’ was a misnomer: he ran the staffing
for one top Anglican society, and got it to share modern premises
with other such; he consulted for charity appointments; and he
shouldered much voluntary work from home in Harpenden.
He and Georgina were the happiest of couples: their son and
daughters caught this infectious mood. Their younger daughter
belongs to a Steiner community: this venture they wholeheartedly
supported. Alan nursed Georgina throughout her latter illness. (He
subsequently married June Berger, her doctor and homeopath and
herself a widow.)
He was a familiar face at Lincoln functions (you could always
be sure of a welcoming smile and a quip) and indeed became one
of the Murray Fund trustees, and prominent in Lincoln appeals. He
was midwife to Keith Murray’s Recollections (that unique view of
Britain’s post-War universities, and coaxed from that humble man,
their eldest statesman).
His life was always up-to-the-minute – no one (to quote his
own pun) was less a LOUDator temporis acti – and to encounter you
now in the Lodge, Alan, would seem perfectly natural.
Stephen Shell (1950)
Geoffrey G. Griffith (1946)
Geoffrey was born in Brazil and then lived in Sri Lanka where his
father was a civil engineer.
In 1924 he became a chorister at St. George’s Chapel Windsor
under Sir Walford Davies. As a treble soloist he sang with George
V in the congregation. He moved then to Tonbridge School until
he was seventeen. He joined I.C.I. in Cheshire and enlisted in 1939
in the Royal Artillery attaining the rank of Captain and saw active
service in Normandy from D-day +10.
In 1946 he came up to Lincoln to read Theology at the age of
twenty-nine. He sang with the chapel choir and was full back in a
very strong 1st XV. He was also an excellent squash player.
In September 1949 he married Ann in the College chapel. He
was ordained at York Minster and served his title at St. Augustine’s
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Church in Hull. He then moved to the college living of St.
Michael’s, Waddington (Lincolnshire), and saw a new church built
to replace one destroyed by war time bombs.
In 1956 he moved to Durham to become chaplain of University
and Hatfield Colleges. In 1966 he returned to parish ministry to
Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. After retirement in Lincolnshire he
became a chaplain at Morton Hall open prison for five years and
followed this as chaplain at St. Barnabas Hospice for a further fourand-a-half years.
Geoffrey was a member of the Crewe Society and kept good
contact with the College. He is best described as a ‘Devoted Man
of God’. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
Bob Blake (1946)
Norman MacLeod of Suardal (1946)
Norman MacLeod, who has died at the age of 84, was one of that
generation of Lincoln students who after winning the war were
determined to enjoy the peace and make the most of Oxford.
When he came up in 1945 he had fought through the
Mediterranean campaigns on board Royal Navy destroyers,
including the perilous evacuations of British troops from Greece
and Crete, taken part in Russian convoys, the Dieppe raid and the
North African invasion. His duties also included raiding a brothel
on the island of Elba, as he would later recall.
Born in 1920, the son, grandson and indeed great grandson of
Church of Scotland ministers, Norman, who always retained a
strong and straightforward Christian faith, was brought up in
Dunbar and Glasgow. He attended Strathallan School, nr Perth,
and Edinburgh University for a year before joining the Royal Navy
in 1940. He resumed his history studies in 1946 and history was to
remain a lifelong passion, passed on to generations of pupils during
his teaching career.
His tutor at Lincoln, Harry Allen, with whom he formed a close
friendship rightly predicted that although Norman was a poor
examinee (he got a third) he would be an inspiring teacher. In the
meantime he was cutting a dash as an undergraduate – the Lincoln
Imp for Trinity term 1947 “congratulates Norman MacLeod on his
green trousers” and the same issue carries a ballad in Scots that he
had written. (He was to remain and inveterate and amusing
versifier for the rest of his life.) He rowed, boxed and played rugby
for the College.
Despite rationing Lincoln men (no women members then of
course) seemed to enjoy life. The editor of The Imp noted that
“college takes itself lightly, life humorously, mankind flippantly,
women somewhat bawdily, but most things philosophically.” The
previous term The Imp had noted the report of the History Society.
“There everyone from Toynbee’s works has read/Except MacLeod
who drinks and nods his head. (NB The above is our sole
information about this august assemblage. Ed)” MacLeod’s taste in
history was unashamedly romantic; he responded to personalities
rather than population statistics. For the Hilary 1948 issue he
enthusiastically reviewed a biography of Admiral Cochrane, a hero
of the Napoleonic wars, disgraced in a stock exchange scandal, who
then went on to fight for Chilean and Peruvian independence.
By this time his thoughts were running on marriage. In
September that year he married Sheila Gorrie, an acting student at
RADA, in what was to be a love match to the end (she died in
1999). There were to be five children and eleven grandchildren.
He retained a pride in the Lincoln connection, attending
gaudies and Lord Crewe dinners, and was pleased when I followed
in his footsteps to read history at the College.
From 1950 until his retirement he taught history at Durham
School, where he was a housemaster for 15 years. Even after
retiring, his close connection with the school continued with a
surprising second career as a cattleman, in charge of a fold of
Highland cattle which had been given to the school. In this role he
became a regular attender at the Oban and Royal Highland shows.
In 1959 he was granted Suardal, the ancient home of his family
on Skye, by the then clan chief, Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod,
where he built a house which was to play host to family holidays
and some memorable ceilidhs. He matriculated his arms as
MacLeod of Suardal in 1961. He was a devoted and knowledgeable
member of Clan MacLeod, who kept alive the stories and legends
in his vivid retellings – another facet of that love of history nurtured
at Lincoln.
The last time we talked, a week before he died, my father’s
memory of recent events was a bit hazy but he recalled an anecdote
about “that charming and intelligent” Madame de Montespan as if
it was the latest gossip from the court of Louis XIV.
Donald MacLeod (1969)
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Ian Halliday (1946)
Ian was born in 1927 in Grimsby, where he spent most of his
childhood. From the local Grimsby grammar school he went up to
Lincoln to read Mathematics just after the Second World War.
Oxford at that time combined 19-year-old school leavers side by
side with older men whose studies had been delayed by the war and
who had experienced remarkable things at a young age. Apocryphal
stories abounded; for example, the Navy man who after a good
evening in Deepers fell asleep in his room with electric fire and kettle
full on. Awaking some time later to a room full of steam through
which a red glow could be made out, the man threw himself into the
quad shouting warnings that the ship had been torpedoed. This story
was told by Ian with great humour, but typically also with a reminder
to his young audience of what they owed to men such as these.
He was heavily involved in rowing at Oxford, or more
particularly coxing, which he did both for the College first eight
and for Isis. During the war Lincoln had combined boats with
another college, and as a result had lost its own place on the river,
and re-entered in the table some way further down. As a result the
post-war years brought a crop of bumps and blades, the
commemorative photographs from which held pride of place in a
succession of studies for the rest of his life. Unfortunately in the
post war years spare blades were hard to come by, so it was only
some 40 years later that his children gave him the properly painted
article as a surprise birthday present.
His affection for Lincoln never diminished. Always a believer in
the value of a rounded (i.e. not purely academic) education, he kept
up a lifelong connection with the boat club, returning to coach the
junior crews, and then helping to establish LCBCS (as Hon Treasurer
and subsequently Chairman) as a vehicle to raise funds for boats and
equipment so that others could enjoy the same opportunities he had.
At one time there was a coxed four in Lincoln boathouse bearing his
name, an honour which gave him great pleasure.
After Oxford he did National Service in the REME, reaching
the rank of Captain. On leaving the Army he moved to Yorkshire
where he married Mary (whom he had met at Oxford, she having
coxed St Hildas and the University Women), qualified as a
chartered accountant in 1954 and became a partner in the firm
three years later. In 1970 he became Finance Director of Allied
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Textiles in Huddersfield. Four years later he was seconded to the
Industrial Development Unit of the Department of Industry in
London. He and Mary decided to stay put in the family house in
Yorkshire, so he commuted weekly to London, and this became the
pattern of the rest of his working life.
His career in London included time as Finance Director of two
insurance broking firms, and a short return to the public sector as
Chief Executive of the National Enterprise Board. He also served
for ten years as a member of the Port of London Authority, and as
an Honorary Treasurer of the Sea Cadets Association.
He was the proud father of two daughters and one son – who also
went to Lincoln – and a generous and caring Grandpa to eight
grandchildren. With considerable dignity he endured a short and
unequal battle with cancer in the spring of 2004 and died on 14 June.
Ian was above all a family man; a genial host and companion
with a sharp wit and great sense of humour; self-effacing but always
ready to offer support and advice if asked. He has been described
by many as a true gentleman.
He had a clear and unambiguous sense of what was right, and
deeply held moral convictions and values – shaped in part by his
time at Lincoln, and underpinned by his strong catholic faith.
These convictions and values he passed on by example – to his
children, and perhaps to others who knew him. That is his legacy,
his contribution to the world around him, and the means by which
his influence and his memory continue.
Simon Halliday (1981)
(The College gratefully acknowledges the generous benefaction received
on Mr Halliday’s passing)
Archpriest Sergei Hackel (1949)
Archpriest Sergei Hackel, who has died aged 73, was a Russian
Orthodox priest and an influential broadcaster on the World Service.
For 20 years Hackel’s gentle humour and smoothly accented
tones graced the half-hour programme he edited for the World
Service. At first he talked about strictly religious matters, and was a
commentator on Christmas and Easter services which were broadcast
from the Orthodox church at Ennismore Gardens in London.
After perestroika, he broadened his scope, interviewing believers and
atheists not only in Moscow and St Petersburg but also at a
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concentration camp from the Stalinist era on the edge of the White Sea.
As a regular contributor to the English-language programme
Citizen of the World, Hackel also made a memorable series about a
three-week visit to the Holy Places, and won an award from an
international radio festival in New York for his programme “Whose
Millennium is It, Anyway?” in which he interviewed Muslims, who
use a different calendar from the Christian West.
He was born Sergei Alekseyevich Gakkel in Berlin on August 24
1931. The family had once owned a large house opposite the royal
palace at St Petersburg, and young Sergei’s parents were part of a
circle of intellectuals, including the abstract painter Kandinsky, who
moved to Germany following the Revolution. In 1940, they moved
to England where the boy went to Bloxham School, Oxfordshire; his
mother became a member of the domestic staff there to pay his fees,
and later taught Russian to national servicemen.
Hackel read Modern Languages at Lincoln, where he was a
sprinter and middle-distance runner, then was a teacher at Barnes,
south London. After ordination, he took charge of a small
Orthodox parish at Lewes, Sussex, while lecturing at the European
Studies School at Sussex University.
He wrote more than twenty books and was involved in the work
of the Anglican-Orthodox Society of St Alban and St Sergius as well
as the Council of Christians and Jews; and he was chairman of the
St Gregory’s Foundation, a charity in the former Soviet Union.
Sergei Hackel, who died on February 9 after recording some
interviews for future programmes, married, in 1953, Christina
Mosse, a painter of Irish Quaker origins. She survives him with
their two sons and two daughters.
Robert Baltaxe (1950)
Robert Baltaxe went up to Lincoln in 1950 (as I did) and read
Forestry. I was 20, having done National Service, but he was already
23 and notably more mature and self-contained than most of us.
His parents were ethnic Germans from Odessa, but strangely
nobody could have been more English, in appearance, speech and
style. But in spite of his being warm-hearted, humorous and
companionable, a more than usual air of detachment, even of
solitariness, hung about him. He had no siblings and his parents
had died. He was extremely hard up, and in a rare flash of emotion
told me that a rich uncle in Switzerland had sent him £5 for
Christmas; “I feel like writing and telling him what he can do with
it,” he said. He possessed just one LP, but it was a special one, which
we both listened to with excitement: the Eroica symphony.
I expected his career to follow a modestly successful path, not
least in marriage because girls were attracted to his laid-back,
undemanding character (including one whom I had wooed in
vain), and he was of the temperament to choose carefully. But the
latter was not to be. He duly became a forester and agriculturist,
spending many years in the Middle East. In the early ‘90s after he
had retired, not having been in touch since we went down, I saw a
note about him in “Alumni News” and wrote – we had lunch a
couple of times and also met by accident at the “Rembrandt’s
Women” exhibition when it was in Edinburgh. Sadly, the
solitariness had returned. He had married and had two sons, but
was divorced and living alone in Cambridge. “Some there be who
have no memorial;” but Bob is one of those who deserve to be
remembered, with fondness.
Christopher Hurst (1950)
John Gordon Simpson (1951)
John Gordon Simpson was born in London on 4 September 1930
and died in Oxford on 10 November 2004. As a boy, with a father
who was engaged almost full-time in the merchant navy in faraway
places, John acquired from his mother a serious sense of
independence, self-reliance and realism. He went to and, in 1948,
emerged successfully from Dame Alice Owen’s School, then in
north London. This was followed by his national service with the
British army in Gibraltar, during which he learnt Spanish.
John’s realism was carried undiminished into his study at
Lincoln College. Our friendship, which lasted fifty-three years,
started when we matriculated in 1951 at Lincoln, where we both
read zoology. During our time at Lincoln we played in the College
soccer and cricket teams, and John rowed in the College eight. He
also persuaded me to learn Spanish—as a pastime.
After going down from the University in 1954, we went to
Canada together to start our budding careers at the University of
Toronto, where we spent a year. Then John took a new job in La
Jolla, California (1955-1958) with the Inter-American Tropical
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Tuna Commission.
In 1958, John joined the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) of the United Nations with whom he stayed until his
retirement. It was the beginning of a long and successful career for
him, which demanded adaptability to changing, sometimes
surprising and often difficult circumstances, dealing with people
from a very wide range of cultural and national backgrounds.
It was during his first spell in Rome (1961-1964) that he met
Gloria, whom he married in 1965. Gloria had a warm and
benevolent influence on John, aided by the birth of their two
children, Sylvia (in Caracas in 1967) and Paul (in Rome in 1975).
His marriage to Gloria endured happily for thirty-nine years.
John retired in 1990 and for his remaining years he had decided
that his whole life had been, if not made completely in Oxford,
certainly influenced by it, both spiritually and intellectually. It was
therefore natural for him and Gloria to decide to settle there. The
house was bought and has been lovingly tended ever since. It is
where he has lived for many happy years with his family. And it is
Oxford where he has died, inevitably but, all things considered,
peacefully, after many months of battle with a cerebral tumour. The
funeral service was held in the College chapel.
Ray C Griffiths (1951)
Derek Johnson (1953)
Derek Johnson was one of a handful of British athletes who
transformed British athletics in the second half of the twentieth
century.
I first met him (if that is the right expression) in 1955 when I
was a freshman at Cambridge, taking part in the annual
Cambridge/Oxford relays, which that year took place at Fenners. I
ran one leg of the 4x440 yds and received the baton with a generous
lead. Despite achieving a faster time than ever before or since, I was
comprehensively out-run by Mr. Johnson, of Lincoln and Oxford,
possibly signalling the end of my brief career as a would-be quarter
miler. The humiliation of such a crushing defeat was lessened when
I discovered that, at the age of 21 and just after finishing his first
year at Lincoln, he was already a double gold medallist (800 metres
and 4x400 metres) at the 1954 British Empire games (now the
Commonwealth Games). Despite watching him run many times in
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the next few years and reading about his exploits, our second
meeting of any length had to wait until he attended the Lincoln
Gaudy in the 1980s and I, now a Fellow of Lincoln, had the good
fortune to sit next to him at dinner and chat to him afterwards. Any
Schadenfreude that I might have enjoyed as a result of discovering
that my old adversary was balder, stouter and more breathless than
me was dispelled in minutes by his undiminished wit, insight,
bluntness and determination. “Why do you [the Fellows] still dress
up in those ridiculous gowns for occasions like this?”, he said.
“Why do you bother to attend them in a dinner jacket and black
tie”, I responded. “Because I look good in a DJ” was his the reply.
It was just the first exchange in a lovely evening of reminiscence,
politics, diatribe, and the virtues of fine wine. I never met him
again, although I followed his career with admiration.
Derek James Neville Johnson was born in Chigwell, Essex, in
1933. After attending From East Ham Grammar School, where he
was an outstanding pupil but already developing a reputation for
being a bit ‘wild’, he did his National service in Egypt then came to
Lincoln in 1953 to study Medicine, i.e. physiological sciences and
the first-MB. He obviously had a first-class academic mind but
found the time, like his older contemporary Roger Bannister, to
develop his passion for athletics. In 1954, already secretary of the
O.U.A.C. he was in charge of preparing the far from satisfactory
Iffley Road track for Bannister’s famous sub-four-minute mile.
From 1954 to 1956 he won both the quarter and half mile in the
annual Varsity match, and the mile in 1957. He became secretary
and president of O.U.A.C. Following his dual triumph at the
Empire Games he won a silver medal at the 1956 Olympic Games
in Perth, beaten by just 0.1 seconds in the 800 metres in what
remains one of the most exciting and closest-ever finals of that
event. In 1958 he won a further silver medal at his second Empire
Games and seemed set for further international triumphs. Alas in
1959 he developed Tuberculosis, with a particularly persistent
pleural effusion. He had to spend most of the year in the Midhurst
sanatorium and Olympic dreams were effectively over. The irony of
this sad and poignant period must have been obvious to Derek.
First, he probably contracted TB while completing his medical
training in the chest clinic of a London hospital. Second, he was
treated with a cocktail of antibiotics that were developed in the
years following the development of penicillin by Florey, Heatley
and Sanders, and the discovery and development of cephalosporin
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by Abraham, all four of whom were Fellows of Lincoln while Derek
was studying medicine there. He must have attended lectures by
Florey and probably had tutorials with Heatley and Abraham.
On recovering from TB he did something that astounded those
who did not appreciate how independent and unconventional he
was. He gave up medicine on the point of becoming fully qualified
and entered the risky but exciting areas of electronics, computing
and – subsequently – property. Many people have speculated on the
reason for such an unusual change of career and they cannot all be
correct! Fortunately, he did not give up athletics. In 1963 he could
still run 800metres in less than 1 min 50 seconds, a time that most
club athletes could not manage. A serious injury to his achilles
tendon prevented him from repeating his former performances, yet
at the age of 50 he could still run a marathon in under 3 hours and
in his 60s he still coached club athletes and led them on training
runs in Hyde Park. But it was off the track that his influence on the
sport was greatest. Never a fan of the British athletic establishment,
he criticized them at the Olympic Games of 1956 for the
inadequate facilities and daily allowance provided for each athlete.
He felt that some athletes could not even afford adequately to
supplement their insufficient daily diet. He was variously dubbed
an angry young man, a firebrand, a troublemaker, and part of
sport’s militant tendency. These were meant to be unflattering
remarks but critics failed to realise that he was proud to receive
them; the taunts proved that he had got under the skin of the
establishment. His disenchantment with the ruling bodies of
athletics prompted him, with like-minded athletes, to found the
International Athletes’ Club (IAC) and he became its secretary then
Chairman. In 1980 he famously led the opposition to Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher’s call for nations to boycott the
Moscow Olympics. Although already widely cited it is worth
repeating his response: “When she [the PM] calls on the
confederation of British Industry to ask its members to stop trading
with the Soviet Union over Afghanistan, then we’ll reconsider our
position”. The British team went to Moscow. He also referred to the
P.M. as a “fighting cock, who thought that her success in the
chicken run at home had turned her feathers into armour”. So no
knighthood or elevation to the Lords for Derek then!
Among his other achievements off the track were: helping to set
up the British Athletic Foundation; being secretary of the Amateur
Athletic Association; organising the ultimately successful
movement to ban tobacco sponsorship in athletics; setting up a
charity for athletes suffering from leukaemia. Even when seriously
ill in 2002 he agreed to carry the Olympic torch through London,
even though he had to use a taxi. Derek had contracted leukaemia
in the 1990s and had battled against it, apparently successfully
whenever he was in remission. If anything the disease only
strengthened his resolve.
Derek Johnson was not only an outstanding runner; he was
beautiful to watch. Only 5 feet 9 inches in height, he nevertheless
had a long, flowing and seemingly effortless stride. In build and
style he was remarkably like Sebastian Coe. He was tough, clever,
outspoken, a mover and shaker, dedicated, and a constant irritant
to the complacent and stuffy. Having him on one’s side must have
been marvellous but to his opponents he was a thorn in the flesh.
Derek Johnson was inspirational, even to those like me who knew
him only slightly. In 2004 Lincoln was reviewing its ancient
convention of awarding Honorary Fellowships only to those of
great distinction in academia or the professions. I and several
colleagues suggested that Derek should be one of the first to be
honoured under the new procedures. He died of leukaemia on
August 30th 2004 just 6 weeks before the necessary vote of the
Governing Body that would have led to his election. Always
assuming that he would have accepted the invitation!
He leaves a wife, Lakkhana, and their young daughter.
Alan Cowey, Supernumerary Fellow
Anthony Bosworth (1955)
The Record wishes to thank Mr Bosworth’s cousin, Mr Jason Newell,
for submitting the following account from The Ousel (newsletter of the
Old Bedfordians), written on the occasion of his retirement:
“His career had been varied and included its degree of mystery.
An OB under the tutelage of Douglas Galbraith, he was Head of
Howard’s in 1951 before going up as a Scholar to Lincoln College,
Oxford, where he obtained first class honours. He then proceeded
to the Navy and Intelligence work, where his knowledge of Russian
was put to the service of his country: strange symbols seen from
time to time on his blackboard indicated that it was also later put
to the service of his pupils; only the few leave the school aware that
the word ‘samovar’ is in fact merely a westernised approximation to
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the true pronunciation of ‘camobap’. Thence to K.C.S Wimbledon
and Bedford School as Head of Classics.
Anthony exuded an air of bonhomie towards his pupils and
colleagues alike. To him a boy was a young man, iuvenis rather than
puer, and he expected an appropriate response from the subject to
this elevation in status. He always saw the positive side of those he
taught: where a pupil’s work was poor, he saw an earnest performer;
where a pupil was idle, he saw his potential; where facetious and
cynical, he found a sense of humour. I cannot remember a boy’s
name appearing in Drill or Detention next to his initials. His own
sense of humour was reflected in his production of two Roman
comedies, The Rope and The Ghost, both by Plautus, in which the
handling of the mixture of slapstick and more cultured humour
illustrated his appreciation of theatrical techniques acquired in his
days with the Oxford University Dramatic Society.”
Ian Maxwell Hammett (1955)
Professor Iain Hammett, better known as Maxwell, came up to
Lincoln in 1955 from Shooters Hill Grammar School. On going
down, he embarked on an academic career in English. Rather than
follow the academic path in Britain, he instead experienced a varied
international career that was spent first in Canada, and later in
Japan. In between his appointments at, variously, the Canada
Research Council, Simon Fraser University and the University of
British Columbia, he also gained an MA in Linguistics from the
University of Reading, and a Ph.D from Edinburgh University. In
later life, he moved out to Japan, and his career ended as a Professor
of English at Daitobunka University. He was a generous man who,
despite not being able to come back to College regularly, continued
to have a fond interest in its future. A passion for art manifested
itself through gifts of paintings and engravings to College. He died
aged 71, and left a bequest to College that is to be put toward the
Museum Road houses. In recognition, one of the houses will be
named in his memory.
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Colin Goodall (1957)
Colin Goodall was at Lincoln 1957-1960 where he studied Modern
Languages, having previously been at Dunstable Grammar School.
I knew Colin as an exact contemporary at Lincoln although we
studied different subjects. We were both members of the College’s
very active Christian Union group. Colin had considerable
organisational abilities which he combined with a ready sense of
humour. Lincoln was very much a community of scholars and
friends to which Colin was clearly committed.
Little is known of Colin’s post-Lincoln life except that he lived in Kent
for many years. News of his death was received in February this year.
Brian Munday (1957)
The College was grateful to receive a generous benefaction on Mr
Goodall’s passing. It will be applied to the Academic Endowment and
support teaching and research for future generations.
Charles Martin Robertson (1961)
Charles Martin Robertson died on 26 December 2004 at the age of
93. He was born on 11 September 1911 into the heart of academic
life of Cambridge, where his father became Regius Professor of
Greek in 1928. After attending the Leys School Robertson went on
to Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1934, Robertson spent two years in Athens as a student of the
British School of Archaeology. His work in Athens led to an early
series of articles on vase-painters, marking the start of a long career
of impeccable scholarship not only in the area of attribution but also
in iconography. In his first book, Greek Painting (1959), Robertson
used vase-paintings and work in other media to try to recreate lost
wall-paintings hitherto known only through textual references. A
History of Greek Art (1975) remains the finest survey of ancient
Greek art. His work on Athenian red-figure vase-painting
culminated in The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens (1992).
After his time at the BSA, Robertson was appointed Assistant
Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the British
Museum in 1936, where he remained until 1948, when he
succeeded Bernard Ashmole as Yates Professor of Classical Art and
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Archaeology at University College London. Robertson was
appointed Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art in
Oxford in 1961 (once again in succession to Bernard Ashmole), a
position he held for 17 years. During his tenure of the chair
Robertson generally cycled the 10 miles from Marcham to Oxford,
only staying overnight in College when the weather was impossibly
bad. Upon his retirement in 1978, he returned to Cambridge.
He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1967, and
numerous honours followed, including an honorary Doctor of
Literature from Queen’s University Belfast (1978), and an
Honorary Fellowship from UCL and Lincoln College (1980). He
was made an Honorary Member of the American Institute of
Archaeology (1985), an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge (1987), and was awarded the Kenyon Medal for
Classical Studies from the British Academy (1987).
Martin Robertson married first, in 1942, Theodosia Cecil
Spring Rice, who died in 1984; and secondly, Louise Berge, in
1988. She survives him, as do the six children of his first marriage.
Professor Stephen Gill writes: ‘When I was elected a Fellow of
Lincoln Martin Robertson represented for me all that was best
about the society I was proud to have joined. He was gentle and
welcoming to me as a newcomer. Always ready to engage in
conversation, Martin could range awe-inspiringly widely, but he
was never a point-scorer. His company was always sought: an
academic and college man in the very best sense of the words’.
from the confidence he instilled. He coxed the crew which in 1966
rowed from Folly Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a day, the first
people to do so for 140 years. Places in his powder-blue MGA for
visits to the Trout and elsewhere were eagerly sought-after; the
policeman who stopped him on the Woodstock Road, when there
were four people inside the two-seater and one clinging to the
luggage-rack on the back, was charmed into forgiveness.
After going down, he gained an accountancy qualification and
worked in stockbroking before founding a financial publishing house,
Taxbriefs, with Danby Bloch (Wadham 1965). His considerable
success in business enabled him to exercise discreet but real generosity
to his wide circle of friends. A gift for friendship was perhaps the
greatest of all George’s talents. It was ironic that he had a reputation at
Lincoln for preferring the company of the smarter sets, because later
he made friends easily from every level of society: lively minds and
interesting characters meant far more to him than wealth or
connections. He was perhaps happiest when entertaining friends at his
house on Mallorca, where he enthusiastically played tennis, walked the
hills, raised poultry and planted vineyards. He never married,
although there was a succession of girl-friends, each – to the chagrin
of his contemporaries – apparently more glamorous than the previous
one. In his distressing last illness his friends, many of whom dated
back to Oxford days, tried to support him as some small repayment
for the enrichment which George’s friendship had given to their lives.
John Newth (1964)
George Stainton (1964)
John Monckton (1974)
George Stainton came up to Lincoln from King’s, Canterbury, in
1964 with a Scholarship in History. At that time King’s had a
reputation, possibly born of envy, for turning out a production line
of Oxbridge history scholars. The briefest contact with George,
though, showed that here was no product of an intellectual sausagemachine but an incisive and independent mind. At the same time
he was an all-rounder, who cheerfully traded a better academic
result than a good Second for playing a full part in College life.
Having coxed the King’s 1st VIII at Henley three years running, he
spent a good deal of time on the Isis. Although he had grown too
heavy to win the Blue that had been predicted for him, the Lincoln
1st VIIIs of ’65 and ’66 benefited from his knowledge and skill and
John Monckton was murdered on 29 November 2004 protecting
his wife and family against armed robbers who had broken into his
Chelsea home.
John died at the tragically early age of 49, having already
secured a distinguished reputation in the City. He had initially
followed in the footsteps of his father (an eminent Chancery
barrister) into Lincoln’s Inn, but then moved into fund
management with BZW, Foreign & Colonial and latterly as a
Director of Legal & General Investment Management, which
controls assets of £167 billion, where he was responsible for the
Fixed Interest and Treasury Operations.
Success in the City was, however, only one of his achievements:
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a devoted husband and father, he was also highly respected within
the Roman Catholic Church and was closely involved with a
number of Catholic charities. While still at Lincoln, he was a
regular volunteer at the Downside Fisher Youth Club in
Bermondsey, where he helped with the boxing club, and was one of
the founders of the Order of Malta Volunteers, the junior branch of
the Order of Malta. At the very early age of 21, he became a Knight
of the Order of Malta and participated in many pilgrimages to
Lourdes. Latterly, he added to those responsibilities by taking a
leading role in the Orders of St John Care Trust, one of the largest
providers of nursing home accommodation in the UK.
John left behind his widow, Homeyra, and two daughters still
at school, Sabrina and Isabel, and while as nothing to their loss, a
great crowd of his many friends gathered together in January in the
appropriately rarefied surroundings of Westminster Cathedral for a
Special Requiem Mass to pay their heartfelt respects.
Tom Plant (1974) recalls:
John was a genuine “scholar and gentleman”, perhaps more typical, in
manner and appearance, of a much earlier generation of Oxford
undergraduates. Arriving at Lincoln in 1974, the riotous clamour of the
College JCR must have seemed a world apart from the cloistered calm
of Downside and, initially, John concentrated on his studies in Classics
and Modern Languages, where he showed he was a gifted scholar with
a real appreciation for French literature. It did not take long, however,
for his combination of thoughtful concern for others and selfdeprecatory dry humour to win him a close circle of friends in College.
A number of those friends share a particular memory of John,
who was no mean cricketer, opening the bowling for the
Gentlemen of Lincoln XI in a village match. He charged in with a
particularly long and athletic run and, on reaching the crease,
despatched the ball way over the batsman’s head and virtually to the
side screen, much to the hilarity of both teams. He did, however,
later in the same over, claim the batsman’s wicket, perhaps
surprising him with a ball of more conventional trajectory, which
Patrick Robathan (1974) recalls “catching in his stomach”.
Mark Seligman (1974) adds:
My diary records that my first meeting with John was in Lincoln on
1st November 1974, at a bridge party which “became slightly riotous
– politics were discussed till 4 am”. After that, I would drop by to see
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him in his rooms, where we would continue to discuss politics – he
always seemed much better informed than me – and any other issues,
such as how to raise advertising revenues for the Lincoln Imp.
We kept in touch during our City careers, although we never
managed to work in the same organisation at the same time. In
2003, John came to a City lunch that I hosted for alumni. From
that ensued various discussions between us, including our views on
being at Lincoln from the vantage point of over a quarter of a
century. He had good memories and felt he had benefited
enormously from his time at Lincoln. He confided that he was
looking forward to being an active alumnus, and indeed hoped his
two daughters would in time come to Lincoln.
We will all most surely miss his future presence, both as a friend
and as an alumnus. As to whether his daughters follow in his
footsteps, we shall have to wait and see.
Joan Hartman, née Fitzpatrick
(1979)
Joan Fitzpatrick advised her students to be engaged in the world. “We
play a pivotal role in the human rights community,” she once said. “It’s
important that we care and that we choose to act.” Professor Fitzpatrick
died unexpectedly on Wednesday, May 14. Her loss is deeply felt by the
many faculty, students and staff with whom she worked and taught
during her nearly 20 years on faculty at the University of Washington
School of Law. Dedicated to improving human rights and social justice
around the world, Professor Fitzpatrick earned a global reputation for
her academic contributions to the field of International and Human
Rights law. She is remembered as a brilliant teacher, renowned scholar
and admired colleague.
During her exemplary career, Professor Fitzpatrick’s scholarship
focused on such civil and political human rights issues as states of
emergency, arbitrary detention, summary execution, torture, and
the death penalty. Professor Fitzpatrick was a member of the board
of editors of the American Journal of International Law and the
Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute; and an expert
consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the
Migration Policy Institute, the International Organization for
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Migration, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She
was a member and advisor to the Legal Advisory Council, Center
for Justice and Accountability, and served on the advisory boards
for several non-governmental human rights organizations.
During her tenure at the University of Washington, she served
as associate dean of the School of Law and as acting vice provost.
Before entering academia, Professor Fitzpatrick practiced law with
the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and the
Federal Trade Commission. Prior to coming to the University of
Washington, she taught at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
and was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia. She
earned a B.A. in history from Rice University, a J.D. from Harvard
University, and a Diploma in Law from Oxford University.
Dickon Abbott (1981)
Dickon was born in Horsham, Sussex but moved to Wiltshire in
1964 when his father trained for the priesthood and grew up in and
around Salisbury. He went to Salisbury Cathedral School where his
brothers were and later to Kingdown Comprehensive school in
Warminster. From an early age he had a vivid imagination and was
endlessly reading and writing stories, poems and his own home-made
magazines as well as showing a fascination for the natural world.
After a year travelling he went to Lincoln College in 1981 to
read Modern History under Vivian Green. His interest in politics
grew as secretary to the Liberal Society but his allegiance soon
changed to the Labour Party for whom he stood as a parliamentary
candidate in the 1992 election in the Westmoreland and Lonsdale
constituency. He resigned from the party over the Iraq war only
weeks before his death.
He graduated in 1984 and later settled in the Lake District
where he did his PGCE and worked in care services. In 1992 he
married Hazel Dole and they had a daughter, Eloise. Later he began
working for Social Services helping to integrate people with learning
difficulties into work and the community. He was heavily involved
and much loved in the Ulverston area where he instigated and
helped with many community projects including renovating the
local park, helping to run festivals and being on the local council.
His early love of writing flourished through poetry and he
contributed a large number of poems to poetry magazines as well as
having a collection published entitled ‘First Flight’. He also
continued to love History and had been planning a biography of
the poet Norman Nicholson. His creativity was only held up by the
dark moments of depression that plagued him on and off
throughout his life.
Dickon will be remembered by his friends and family as
someone who cherished friendship and love above all else. His
wide-ranging interests in music, drama, poetry, religion, nature,
politics and history and his active engagement with these meant
that he had a wide range of friends, many of whom packed the
church at his funeral last year. He is buried in the Quaker burial
croft near Ulverston.
Ben Abbott
Alumni will be sad to hear of Donald Whitton, Fellow of the College
from 1957 - 1995 on 11 September 2005. An obituary will appear in
the next issue of The Record
Below are alumni for whom we do not have an Obituary:
Hubert Manery (1951)
Dennis P Buckley (1948)
J B Blackshaw (1957)
Barry D Walker (1949)
Michael O. L. Parkin (1949)
John Bolton Smart (1946)
Roger Warboys (1951)
Stephen J Salter (1970)
John L Ainscough (1939)
Ralph Morton (1956)
Richard Coakes (1932)
Anthony Wethered (1948)
William Ellis Stehbens (1958)
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The Senior Common Room
During the academic year 2004-5 we have enjoyed the company
of Andrew Wright, this year’s Newton-Abraham Visiting
Professor in Medical, Biological and Chemical Sciences. This
very important visiting post is valued highly by the College and
the Senior Common Room has been very fortunate in having a
series of such agreeable incumbents. We welcome back as a
Visiting Fellow for a three year visit a former Fellow, Professor
Claudio Cuello, who has been gazetted as Visiting Professor of
the University. The Fellowship has been strengthened by the
appointment of Bruno Whittle, to a Junior Research Fellowship
in Philosophy and of Dr Thomas Wynn to the Hardie PostDoctoral Fellowship in Humanities. During the course of the
year the College created the new post of Assistant Bursar, which
carries a non-governing body Fellowship, and we are pleased to
have poached Mrs Jane Skinner away from administration in
Cambridge University to join us.
Two elections to Honorary Fellowships have been made. It is
a great pleasure to add to our number Professor Lawrence Klein,
Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics, Emeritus, of the
University of Pennsylvania, and Dr Stephanie Cook, MBE, who
in addition to her medical distinctions, is famed for winning the
Gold Medal for Britain in the Modern Pentathlon at the 2000
Olympic Games in Sydney.
There are departures too for note, of course. Barely had we
congratulated Rod Eddington on the national honour that
makes him Sir Rod, but we were arranging a farewell dinner for
our distinguished Honorary Fellow, who is returning to
Australia. At a time when the business demands on him could
hardly have been greater, Sir Rod has worked tirelessly
fundraising on Lincoln’s behalf and it is to be hoped that the
send-off dinner will linger in his memory as a token of what the
College acknowledges it owes to him. It was certainly a fun
occasion. Our best wishes and congratulations also go to Dr
John Cooper, Praelector in Modern History, who leaves us for a
post at York University, and to Thomas Martinec, who is
returning to his native Germany to a post at the University of
Regensburg. Two members of the Senior Common Room who
are from other colleges deserve mention for all that they have
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done for Lincoln. This year sees the retirement of Dr David
Pattison and Professor John Caldwell, who have looked after
Spanish and Music students in Lincoln for a great many years.
They have both enriched the life of our college and we wish
them a very happy retirement.
It hardly needs saying that research is flourishing in the
college. Professor Peter Atkins’ book publications for the year
include the third edition of Chemical Principles, the fourth
edition of Molecular Quantum Mechanics and Physical Chemistry
for the Life Sciences. Professor R.R.R. Smith has completed a
volume on Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, and has
continued fieldwork in Turkey at Aphrodisias and in Libya.
During the second year of her Leverhulme Major Research
Fellowship, Dr Susan Brigden spent several months working in
the Archivio Segreto of the Vatican and in other Italian archives,
in pursuit of material for her study of Sir Thomas Wyatt and the
world of European diplomacy and court politics. For Dr
Cristina Dondi, Lyell Research Fellow in Bibliography, 2005 has
seen the culmination of a project to which she has devoted 8
years of her life—the six volume catalogue of fifteenth-century
printed books in the Bodleian Library. To celebrate the event,
Dr Dondi, together with a colleague Alas Coates, organised an
exhibition: After Gutenberg: History and Culture in Fifteenth
Century Printed Books in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, which
attracted nearly fifteen thousand visitors.
I think the appropriate note on which to end this report
from the Senior Common Room is supplied by Thomas
Martinec, who wrote to me as editor of The Record and as
Steward of Common Room: ‘I am leaving Lincoln “with a
laughing and a crying eye” (as the Germans say). While I feel
very lucky to have a future in academia, I am also sad that I
cannot spend more time at this college. In any case, I will always
remember Lincoln as the place where I have been given the most
welcoming and stimulating start to an academic career one can
dream of!’
Stephen Gill
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The MCR
It has become a generally accepted fact over the past few years
that no graduate event in Oxford can be viewed as having been a
success unless it has been infiltrated by ‘that Lincoln lot.’ This
year the MCR have, to our credit, transformed many of the staid
and sober social gatherings of our sister colleges’ into
hootenannies and nights to remember (were it not for the
alcohol, of course…). Consequently, we have a well-earned
reputation as a ‘cool’ graduate college. Graduates, by and large
are not usually an extrovert group, in comparison to our younger
and more dynamic undergraduate kin: it’s surprisingly difficult
to get in the party mood when you know you have to write
100,000 words, or when rent goes up by over 9% a year and your
government funding doesn’t. No, all things considered, the lot of
the average graduate student isn’t exactly bread and roses.
And yet, Lincoln’s MCR continues to bloom: it laughs,
sings, plays sports at blues level (and occasionally wins!), and it
continues to grow into a vast and cosmopolitan community.
This year alone our new freshers represented 29 nationalities
and spanned five continents (and once Antarctica finally builds
a few universities, we expect to start receiving applications from
there, too), all of them enthusiastic about helping to make
Lincoln their home-from-home. Our spiritual muse, Emily
Carr, visited us not once but thrice this year, to the immense
enjoyment of our people, and to my very great relief when she
vanished back into the ether leaving nothing more than a few
phantasmal beer stains on my bedroom carpet.
The astounding growth of the Middle Common Room in
recent years reflects Lincoln’s realisation (before many of our
fellow colleges) that graduates appear to feature prominently in
Oxford’s future. We are, it seems, more than simple cash cows to
this university (though the MBA’s might disagree), and if we are
to retain our reputation as a world leader in research, short of
burning down Harvard, we must strive to support graduate
study at all costs. Lincoln, perceptive of this long-term goal, has
already begun working to expand its graduate community both
in size and scope across the academic spectrum, most obviously
in the sciences (with the construction of the long-awaited EPA
Science Centre, accommodating 48 test-tube wielding
postgraduates), but also taking steps to support arts and
humanities (Bear Lane is all ours again, wa-ha-ha-ha!), and even
our pesky lawyers (one day, after all, they’ll be our pesky
benefactors!).
Thanks is due in no uncertain terms to so many people for
the successes of this year, and to most of them I need only say
that (you know who you are), and that we all owe you a debt of
gratitude. A few truly deserve a name check though, so please
allow me to sincerely express my thanks to Sasha, Sam, Claire,
Duc and Pat, for all their help, advice and know-how along the
way; to the Turk, Mehmet Karli, my friend, colleague, vodkabuddy and loyal MCR Secretary; and lastly to Sinead Forde,
leader of Lincoln’s elite bar-dancing team and the Queen of the
MCR, in lasting thanks for absolutely everything.
The future of the MCR looks bright – more members, more
fields of study, ever-greater participation in the social,
intellectual and sporting life of the College and the University.
We are even on cordial terms with the JCR, although I fear that
our midnight raids on their vending machines have not gone
unnoticed. We are better represented in college affairs than ever
before, thanks to increased inclusion at the committee level and
far greater transparency of information. Our concerns, and our
advice, are now taken seriously. We may even in the future look
forward perhaps to sitting on Governing Body (figuratively
speaking). All in all, it’s a great time to be a grad at Lincoln.
It has been my very great honour to see such times for the
Middle Common Room, and in my retirement I hope to see
them long continue, in the capable hands of President Stuart
Minson and his team.
Andrew ‘Beau’ Beaumont
MCR President, 2004-2005
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JCR
The Lincoln Junior Common Room has been busy this year, with
members continuing to be involved in all kinds of sport, drama,
music and journalism, as well as strengthening ties with our sister
college in Cambridge, Downing, and some improvement to JCR
facilities.
The Entz team have continued to provide us with the infamous
Lincoln bops, and did an excellent job in Freshers week despite
problems with the initial line-up of team members, the highlight
being a foam party at Bar Med. On the entertainment front there
have been wanderings further afield as well. Despite the lack of a
full College Ball this year, a Valentine’s Ball was held at Frevds, and
there have been numerous outings to Jongleurs, Zodiac and the
new Zoo Club nights run by OUSU, the Oxford Student Union.
The furthest away trip was to Cambridge, however, where links
with Downing College were re-established with a reciprocal trip
and lavish dinners at each other’s Halls. Hopefully the relationship
will continue to grow next year.
The artistic flourishing that has accompanied the establishment
of the Turl Street Arts Festival continued this year, with our talented
Organ Scholars, Paul Wingfield and Rebecca Taylor, organising
another operatic performance in Lincoln Library, this time a
candlelit performance of Mozart’s ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’, with a full
Chamber Orchestra. Resident thespian Ian Brownhill produced
“Comedy in the Quad”, a series of sketches and humorous musical
numbers, in the Rector’s Garden this Trinity term, to raise money
for the annual Vacation Project. Along with these highlights Sarah
McBurnie co-ordinated another excellent Freshers music recital in
Michaelmas, and we hosted an international recital in Hilary.
We seem to have been enjoying a journalistic renaissance at the
same time. Roger Waite, the editor of our humble Imp last year, has
gone on to higher things as the editor of the Oxford Student
newspaper in Trinity Term, and has been followed into the hectic
world of student journalism by Alex Baker as News Editor and Olly
Rampley as Arts Editor. Lincoln is not content with taking over the
press either, but is seizing control of the airwaves, with no less than
seven JCR members being involved in shows on the newly
launched Oxide Radio 87.7FM.
Indeed Lincoln is definitively throwing off its (somewhat
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undeserved) reputation for being insular – we have even had some
members involved in the Oxford Union, a rare occurrence for the
college in recent years. Sport is doing particularly well with several
Blues athletes now amongst our ranks, including Aaron Espin and
Simon Hay representing Oxford rowing in the lightweight boat at
Henley; Hugh McCormick in under-21 rugby; and Haakon
Riekeles and Clare Paramore as sailors. The College sports teams
have also been successful this year, with victory in sailing Cuppers
and good performances by football and darts being highlights.
Unfortunately, our rowing, normally surprisingly good for a small
college, has slipped this year, with most crews dropping places in
Torpids and Eights. But then there is always next year to claw our
way back up.
JCR-MCR relations have gone from strength to strength, with
some joint events, although sadly the planned sports day including
the SCR had to be cancelled due to bad weather. Again,
participation in College governance has become increasingly active,
and the JCR has greatly appreciated its growing involvement. There
has been one major headache this year for both college staff and
students – the long delays on the development of the EPA Science
Centre site. Unfortunately, the students living in the beautifully
refurbished houses at Museum Road have had to endure constant
drilling, concrete-pouring and assorted other building noises and
intrusions all year, particularly unsatisfactory considering many of
them are finalists. However, despite the problems the whole project
should be finished in time for next year’s residents.
The JCR committee has been working hard this year, and I
would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to all of them. We
have managed to get the JCR kitchen refurbished and Library
opening hours extended, as well as starting up a new website –
www.lincolnjcr.com – which we expect to become more and more
useful over the coming years. In particular, Amy Hibbert has made
the role of Welfare Officer a proactive one this year, with more use
of peer support and more welfare information available. Jason
Pawluk and Andy MacGilp have provided me with great support
and done a fantastic job in their respective roles as Secretary and
Treasurer. Along with Andy, Steve Wright as Business Manager has
made sure the JCR finances are in a very healthy state this year and
Miranda Claremont, our Academic Affairs and Access
representative, has in addition to her usual duties produced
Lincoln’s first Alternative Prospectus for many years. This will be
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available on Open Days and on the website and will give a students’
view of college life which hopefully will encourage more
applications and interest in the college.
Next year will, I’m sure, be yet another exciting year, and I wish
all the best to the new JCR President Ollie Munn and his
committee.
Ally Henderson
JCR President 2004-2005
1427 Committee
Throughout this academic year the 1427 Committee has persisted
in its task of organising College activities and aiding the
Development Office. Michaelmas term began, as is traditional,
with the annual recruiting drive of Freshers’ Drinks at which the
Committee attracts new members by taking the original approach
of offering interested parties liquid refreshment. Unsurprisingly, the
event was heavily subscribed and after careful consideration we
were delighted to welcome Natalie Gourvitch, Oliver Munn, David
Members of the 1427 Committee at the 2005 Leavers’ Barbeque (l-r):
Oliver Munn (2004), David Green (2004) seated, Chris Cowley
(2003) 1427 President 2005-06, OJ Wooding (2002) 1427
Committee President 2004-05, and Tom Eyre-Maunsell (2002)
Green and Anthea Loganathan onto the Committee, with Robin
Rotman becoming our graduate representative. Last year saw major
alterations to the structure of the organisation with the institution
of an Executive Committee and a wider group of members. I am
pleased to report that this has meant the Committee has received
added support and assistance in executing its functions.
One of the primary functions of the 1427 Committee is to
welcome parents into the College fold. This academic year Lincoln
has hosted Parents’ Dinners in Michaelmas and Trinity, which have
continued to be as popular as ever. The Parents’ Luncheon at the
end of Hilary was a thoroughly enjoyable event, with fine weather,
delicious food, and a warm speech from OJ. Tours by the
Committee members greatly contributing to its success. The
Parents’ Luncheon not only means we can give parents a taste of
Lincoln life and raises the profile of the College, but also enables
the 1427 Committee to make a donation to Lincoln’s Vacation
Project. Consequently, I am greatly indebted to Fiona Moodie for
making this event possible. 1427 members have also had the
opportunity to dine with old members both in London and at the
Lincoln Society dinner. I hope that everyone enjoyed these events
and will attend again next year in large numbers.
The end of the year for the 1427 Committee came with the
Leavers’ Barbeque, held at Bartlemas. Once again relieved finalists
revelled in Simon Faulkener’s cooking, the drinks served by
Committee members and, of course, the bouncy castle. Smooth
music and creative decorations helped create a suitably relaxed and
celebratory atmousphere. I would like to help all those involved
with the barbeque for their help and support. The end of Trinity
term is never an easy time to organise an event, especially when last
minute hiccoughs are encountered, and the weather refuses to lend
its assistance. Nevertheless, this was a pleasing way to round off
this year’s work for the 1427 Committee. I would also like to
register my thanks to the College and particularly the
Development Office who have been so generous in their support
of all things 1427. Finally, it must be recorded that the outgoing
president Oliver Wooding has done an outstanding job at the
helm. Fortunately, his expertise and calm approach will not be
missed next year as he remains at Lincoln to undertake a master’s
degree in history. We may even see him again in the guise of our
graduate representative!
Chris Cowley, President 1427 Committee
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Lincoln Society
All members of Lincoln College are automatically members of the
Lincoln Society. In addition to an Eights Weeks Wine Party to
which members and their guests are invited each May, the Lincoln
Society Dinner has long been a fixture of the calendar in June.
In order to ensure that the Lincoln Society continues to provide
members with events designed to match their interests, a survey was
conducted in the spring of 2005. Many thanks to those members
who responded. As a result, several steps were taken to update the
dinner, which was a great success:
synchronised.
Those members who expressed an interest in hearing a
presentation as part of the Lincoln Society event are invited to join
the Murray Society. Murray Day, which is held each November,
includes drinks in an Oxford location such as a museum or faculty
facility and, after lunch, members and spouses are treated to a
presentation by a Fellow regarding their research or a presentation
about some aspect of the College, such as the College silver, the
choir or its antiquarian book collection. Murray Day 2005 will
feature a talk by Supernumerary Fellow Nigel Wilson on the
Archimedes Palimpsest.
We welcome your continued thoughts on how to improve
Lincoln Society programmes in the future.
• Younger members were offered a lower dinner price,
• Several current students were invited to attend and
• The College’s newest members, those graduating in 2005,
were encouraged to attend.
In addition, other changes to the format of the dinner have
been considered. While some members were in favour of inviting
spouses to the dinner, there was strong support for keeping to the
current policy, especially in view of the fact that spouses and guests
are included in the invitation for the Wine Party. (That said, we will
be inviting spouses for the 2006 dinner as they have been invited to
an all-University reunion planned for 1975 matriculates that same
weekend.) Additionally, moving the dinner to a Saturday,
lunchtime or another time of year was considered, but the
consensus seems to be that the current format is preferable at
present. All of these options will continue to be assessed in the
future and further comments are welcome.
Several other suggestions were made by members, such as
adding weekend-long events and activities for families.
Unfortunately, due to staffing and health and safety issues, the
College is not currently able to add such features on an annual
basis. The International Alumni Weekend that was held in 2003
was attended by approximately 20 alumni. While it was enjoyed by
all, the extensive work load that was required to make arrangements
for such an event meant that it can not be repeated frequently. It is
hoped that new University-organised alumni relations activities will
include a selection of such events with which college-based dinners
such as Gaudies and/or those of the Lincoln Society can be
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Kenneth Sewards-Shaw, Chairman
Choir
As ever, the College Choir has been playing an active role within
and without the College walls. We are very fortunate to be able to
count some of the most talented university singers among our
numbers both from Lincoln – over half the choir are Lincolnites –
and other colleges. At the beginning of the year we were very
pleased to welcome in a new choral scholar, Alice Bowen, a chemist
and the exemplary holder of the Valerie Blake Scholarship. This
year also saw a current member of the choir, Shizuyo Okada,
awarded the Hardie Choral Scholarship. Thanks are to be given to
Jonathan Shipley and Thomas Eyre-Maunsell, two of the
staunchest members of the choir and holders of the remaining two
Valeria Blake Scholarships, who have been as fundamental to
maintaining the high standards of the choir. Tom, an English
finalist, is moving onto the Bristol Old Vic after our summer tour.
We wish him the best of luck.
Other leavers who we will be sad to see go this year are Naomi
Ives, Andrew Elliott, Fleur Mason, Johannes Terwitte and Helen
Begbie.
From a musical perspective, services in Chapel this year have,
on the whole, been excellent, even outstanding. The choir responds
incredibly well to difficult and varied repetoire and we have
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latter part of the tour. On our last day he recorded us performing
our concert music. We look forward to the results in September.
Thanks go to Stephen for his support and advice.
A final word must be written about Prof John Caldwell who
retires from the University this year. Although based for many
years at Jesus, John has overseen the careers of many Lincoln
organ scholars not to mention choir members. As already
mentioned, the last term saw several of John’s compositions
performed by the choir who regard him with much affection and
warmth. His support of the choir has always been greatly
appreciated by the organ scholars. The whole choir wishes him
the very best for a happy retirement.
Paul Wingfield (2003)
performed music ranging from Sheppard to world premieres by
Caldwell. For all its beauty the unforgiving acoustic in Chapel is
challenging to say the least and it is testament to the standard of the
choir that they are able to give excellent performances without the
luxury of a grand soundboard against which to resonate.
Outside of Chapel we have found ourselves with a busy
schedule. Coventry Cathedral, Eton College Chapel, St George’s
Chapel have all had visits from the choir this year. We have also
been involved closer to home with our ‘sister’ church, St Michael’s
of the North Gate, singing, memorably, for the service held in
honour of the late Vivian Green.
The summer tour to Santiago de Compostela was a huge
success in every way. We sang at four different venues around the
city in a trip lasting eight days. Three outstanding concerts of
Spanish and English music were given to audiences of 200 or more.
Highlights included a Pilgrims’ Mass in the Cathedral to a
congregation of 1000 and singing on local television. How also
could we ever forget Hugh’s impromptu performances of Beach
Boys numbers? Not easily, I expect.
We were fortunate to have Stephen Shipley with us for the
From the Lincoln College choir summer tour to Santiago de
Compostela
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Drama
Drama within Lincoln has gone rather quiet over the last few years
so it is said, but this past year has seen a great resurgence for
Lincoln’s drama and the arts. I have found it quite amazing that if
I say the words, “go on, it’s for charity” so many Lincolnites (and
friends from other colleges) dive in and are willing to get involved.
Trinity term 2004, it was a great pleasure to direct some of college’s
greatest and newest talent in the Grove, in a production of George
Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, all of the funds raised being invested in
the Vacation Project. Over a weekend of brilliant sunshine, the
Grove was turned into an Edwardian scene complete with costumes
masterfully put together by Lynsey Duffield, and saw veteran
Oxford actors Thomas Toulson and Lynsey Freedman take to the
stage in their last major performances in Oxford as Henry Higgins,
and Liza Doolittle. The leads received great acclaim, but brilliant
cameos were enjoyed from those who had never dared tread the
boards before, noted by all was Jack Jones portrayal as a foreign
ambassador, complete with well trimmed moustache, and for a
linguist, a rather dubious accent.
Hilary Term 2005 saw Lincoln take the lead for the Turl Street
Arts Festival. For once remote from any sort of artistic input it was
a bizarre sensation to take the lead as Pro-Committee Chairman
and yet not have any input into any individual event, rather slogged
through meetings until the end result. All of the Turl’s colleges
produced a wide range of events, but I am proud to say that Lincoln
produced some it’s finest. Imogen Walford the Chair of the Oxford
University Photographic Society hosted a photo competition which
was well attended and produced work of a very high standard, and
Paul Wingfield masterfully transformed the library into an Opera
House. Great thanks though must go to those Lincolnites who
made sure everything went artistically smoothly while I worried of
permission, pennies and pence, in particular Charles Turnham, the
Lincoln Committee chair who was a constant support, and of
course George Westhaver, the College Chaplain, who provided
enthusiastic guidance. It is worthy of note that, for the first time,
Lincoln hosted the end of festival Evensong rather than, as usual,
seceding to its larger neighbour Exeter, and wowed everyone; the
acoustics made all three combined choirs sound just as wonderful.
Trinity Term 2006 heard laughter pour into the Rector’s Garden
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as Comedy in the Quad was held to raise funds for the Vacation
Project. As the old guard of Lincoln drama sat their finals I
lamented that I would not be able to repeat the success of
Pygmalion from the year before, however was soon pleasantly
surprised to find a new sway of stars led by Kirsten Sample, Rachel
Wood, and the Junior Organ scholar Rebecca Taylor. Particular
highlights were Jonny Shipley dressed as a bumblebee, and the
veteran Laura Keenan’s on-the-spot “rewrite” during The
Importance of Being Earnest. I must thank Helen Gardiner for her
all too convincing performance of my wife in Master of the House
and thank the comedy duo Guy Woodward and Thomas EyreMaunsell for gracing the stage for one last time.
At the end of the year I am convinced that Lincoln drama will
continue to thrive under the leadership of a new generation, even
on the slightest of budgets and continue to raise both the profile of
the college and money for its causes. I must thank everyone this
year who helped in all the college’s artistic pursuits and thank you
all for making it a pleasure to have been, “Master of the House.”
Ian Brownhill (2003)
Crossword Solutions
ACROSS
4 Joiner
7 Porter
8 Eastaway
9 Stye
10 Pines
12 Cist
18 Thomas
19 Marian
20 Olga
23 Facets
27 Eros
28 Casaubon
29 Exeter
30 Rector
DOWN
1 Louth
2 Steep
3 Green
4 Jesus
5 Isaac
6 Evans
11 Iraq
13
14
15
16
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21
22
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24
25
26
Isis
Tune
Otto
Song
Kaye
Leave
Adapt
Faber
Coney
Tepee
Coxes
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Sports Reports
Football
Finally season 2004-05 saw LCFC break the shackles of Division 2,
gloriously achieving the promotion that had so narrowly eluded
them in the two previous years.
Yet even despite these heroics and the ultimate satisfaction that
can be derived from the knowledge that Division 1 football awaits
next year, there were times that it seemed that it could have been
even better. At Christmas, Lincoln were the only undefeated team
in the league and after a couple of early draws only a point off top,
however a dip in form midway through Hilary put paid to any title
hopes.
The elder statesmen of the team, the Ecobs, Hoares, Frews,
recounted tales of good starts to seasons squandered in years gone
by; but this was not a side prepared to accept the fate of perennial
disappointments. The spirit of the ‘blue and blue’ saw a return to
form and a spectacular 6-1 win away to Merton/Mansfield (having
trailed at half-time) guaranteed promotion with a match to spare.
Fittingly, that last game was against the side Lincoln edged out of
promotion – Christ Church – and the season was capped by
outclassing them on their own turf to secure 3 more points.
There were many highlights, but George Hoare’s volley that
sealed the comeback from 3-0 down against OXiLP particularly
deserves mention, along with the win over St. Peter’s that finished
the unbeaten Michelmas term. On an individual level Mike
Mountain’s phenomenal tally of 26 goals in 15 starts marks him out
as perhaps the most prolific striker the College has seen in recent
times. (He doesn’t pass much, but then does he need to? Strike
partner Thomas ‘The Plow’ Plowman – one goal – may disagree.)
The fresher contingent, especially the versatile Rich Simmonds,
ever-committed Dan Bunney and player-of-the-year midfield
dynamo Paul Clark contributed greatly to the success, whilst the
blend of such youth with the likes of Jon O’Shea, skipper Matt
Adams and Mountain, who will all still be around next year, bodes
well for life beyond Division 2.
Dan Bunney (2004)
Hockey
League Record: P12 W 8 L2 D2 F 34 A 8
The Lincoln football team, taken just after the win that lead to their
promotion to Division 1. Back row (l-r): Dan Bunney (’04), Mike
Mountain (’03), Paul Clark (’04), Rich Stock (’02), Matt Adams
(’03) (c), Dave Newman (’01), Jon O’Shea (’02). Front row (l-r):
Tobias Zech (’04), Rich Ecob (’01), Rich Simmonds (’04), George
Hoare (’02), Ciaran O’Rooke (’02).
In the two seasons since its formation as an independent team,
Lincoln College hockey has achieved a huge amount. Last year it
was the glamorous run to become cuppers’ champions; this year we
opted for the more grueling test of the league, but still came out
champions of our division, notably finishing ahead of very strong
Jesus, Oriel and Merton/Mansfield sides.
The team’s success can be put down to 2 factors. First, the high
level of individual ability shown by many players. The midfield trio
of Chris Kindt, Tom Field and Peter (Piwi) Finding was quite
outstanding – strong and skilful on the ball and (bar Mr Kindt) ultracommitted in defence. Alongside them, we had a first-rate keeper in
Rich Stock – generally both injured and “the worse for wear”, but
marvelous as a shot-stopper and a sweeper behind the defence, and a
very able joint captain. Notable also were: Steve Wright, who scored
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a number of vital goals; Charlie Turnham, who thoroughly merited
his “best newcomer” award; Tom Cole, who ran tirelessly up front,
and even found the goal on occasion; and Chris Tompkinson, who
added experience and a powerful hit to the defence.
But as important as these individual abilities was the
commitment of the side on and off the pitch. Many points were
won simply by our ability to field a full team, week in, week out –
whereas other teams often either did not field 11 players or forfeited
completely, I believe we had a full side for each game. This is a great
achievement for a minority sport in a small college, and much
credit is due for this not only to the aforementioned, but also to
very worthy regular foot soldiers such as Kent, Lovell and Smith, to
those who helped out when needed such as Frew, Cowley and
Scherbel-Ball, and to the very many people who played one or two
times for the side – my sincere thanks to them all.
And commitment on the pitch was not lacking either. It is
notable that our best performances were against the toughest sides
– there were some superb battling efforts, especially the 1-1 draw
against Jesus with a somewhat weakened team. Wright’s equalizer
with the last hit of the match against Merton/Mansfield was also
perhaps symbolic of the season as a whole.
The year has also had its lighter moments: Piwi successfully
ordering 12 hoodies declaring us “chapmions”; Wortho (I write
here as Caesar did) vainly attempting to score a goal, but
successfully stirring up some light conflict with Merton/Mansfield;
Phil Smith trying to convince me to find out the St Hugh’s left
back’s ‘phone number for him, and taking Chris Kent to the
completely wrong pitch; and Phil and I breaking into Rich Stock’s
house to find the keeper kit, after one of Rich’s quieter nights
rendered him somewhat forgetful …
We now look ahead to Division 2 with enthusiasm but some
caution – we are losing a number of this year’s side. Special tribute
must again be paid to Kindt and Field: Chris founded the
independent Lincoln team, and his skill has been invaluable to the
side for 3 years; Tom has rapidly grown in confidence over the last
2 years, and his combination of ability and commitment is now
quite awesome. They are, I fear, irreplaceable; but please, everyone,
turn out next year and prove me wrong.
Tom ‘Wortho’ Worthen (2002)
Joint Captain
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Boat Club
The men’s novice squad was unusually strong this year and we
managed to field 4 men’s novice crews in Michaelmas term despite
having 6 full men’s novice crews at one point! The novice A crew
was enormous by college crew standards with an average height of
about 6'3" despite having Rich Stock at bow! The novice B’s
followed close behind all term picking up the technical aspects of
rowing pretty fast but lacking the size and strength of the A crew.
As is standard practice for Michaelmas rowing we were off the
water for nearly 2 weeks in total during the term due to excessive
rain and high water levels but compared to recent years this was a
fairly short time. We were quite lucky to get out on the water as
much as we did as it seemed to rain pretty much all term! Our large
graduate contingent from all over the world faired pretty well in
adjusting to the cold and early mornings… and it was cold, as those
novice scullers will testify after several involuntary swimming
lessons.
The C and D crews suffered slightly as the term went along as
different people moved up and down the crews and unfortunately
the D crew couldn’t race at Christchurch because it was decided
that they were probably a hazard both to themselves and others. It
is probably just as well anyway as they were drawn against Oriel
men’s A crew in the first round. Crabs were, unfortunately, not an
uncommon phenomenon amongst the men’s novices, and caused
the downfall of most of our crews despite us leading all the way.
Though the novice A’s managed to battle through to the quarter
finals.
The senior rowers, having trained as a squad through
Michaelmas term, suffered due to a lack of members and so
recruited Shane Sibble, a promising oarsman from the novice A’s,
for Torpids. The lack of experience in the boat unfortunately
showed up in 7th week as the 1st VIII slid 6 places over the 4 days
of Torpids. The 2nd VIII, comprised of the stronger novices and a
few 2nd year rowers, had a very unfortunate run of luck after
several (!) encounters with the wall in the gut and didn’t deserve to
fall 3 places down the 4th Div over Torpids. The 3rd VIII battled
through more crew combinations than you could possibly imagine
but despite the lack of continuity, experience and water time they
still managed to compete in Torpids and enjoy themselves.
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The cold weather and early mornings through Michaelmas and
Hilary proved too much for most of the novice rowers and
unbelievably only 6 novices remained in Trinity term out of the 50
that signed up in Freshers’ week. This high drop out rate combined
with the pressures of exams for the senior rowers left us with only 2
men’s Eights competing in VIIIs week, a very small turn out in
comparison with previous years. Training for the 1st VIII went well
in the running up to VIIIs and expectations were high with the arrival
of Aaron Espin and Simon Hay, returning from the lightweight Blue
Boat and Nephtys respectively. As with Torpids, all did not run
entirely to plan and we were unfortunate to be chased by some fast
crews from Wadham, Univ and Queens. This left us down 3 to
second in the 2nd Division at the close of play on Saturday. The 2nd
VIII also had a tough battle with Queens being bumped by them
twice and bumping them once. These tough races made up for the
overbump that happened on the Wednesday, but we won’t talk about
that one…
I’d like to thank all those that have been involved with the boat
club this year, committee, coaches, rowers and, of course, the Boat
Club Society who support us. Whilst not being a very successful
year, it has been enjoyed by all involved and I’d like to wish next
years crew the best of luck.
Nick Cole (2001)
Drawn against training partners Lady Margaret Hall and their
legions of American exchange students the match, scheduled at the
ungodly hour of 8am, promised to be a challenge. With Blue
Premand inconsiderately deciding to sit an exam rather than lead
Lincoln into the semis, and injuries to both Andy Macguilp and
Brasenose loan Andreas, Lincoln looked like underdogs from the
start. Despite Chaplain George assuring the team that God was on
our side, divine inspiration was sorely lacking as Lincoln went in at
half time 18pts down. Fate took another cruel twist in the first
minutes of the second half as all-round College sporting superstar
Liam Keegan retired with a dislocated finger. Yet Lincoln refused to
go under easily. Valuable baskets by Phil Tresadern and Ken
Chuang cut the final score down to a respectable 49 - 35, Lincoln
outscoring LMH considerably in the second half. Nonetheless, for
this year the cuppers dream was over. However with the core of the
team remaining next season the hope and desire remain and it
seems the Jazz are far from playing their final note…
James Goundry (2003)
Basketball
04/05 was a year of much promise but ultimate frustration for the
Lincoln Basketball team, a.k.a. ‘The Jazz’. Having spent
Michaelmas and Hilary terms assembling the best ’balling side seen
at Lincoln since the days of Wesley the team quickly went through
the motions of the inter-college league, before setting its eyes firmly
on Trinity and the all important cuppers tournament. With
University Blue Patrick Premand in intimidating form and
Canadian College Chaplain George Westhaver beginning to
recapture his misspent basketball youth, Lincoln was being tipped
as the dark horse for the championship. The campaign got off to a
flying start with successive victories against Corpus Christi, Exeter,
and an arrogant yet thankfully clueless Christ Church side ensuring
qualification to the knockout stages. Yet here in the quarterfinals
fate was to play an unwelcome and unfortunately decisive role.
Back row, left to right back row: Liam Keegan, Andy Macguilp, Mike
Jones, Phil Tresadern. Front row, left to Right: Ken Chuang, George
Westhaver, James Goundry, Patrick Premand.
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Mens Tennis
2005 was a successful year for Lincolns Mens Tennis team; the
squad was boosted by the arrival of new boys Henry Tillson and
Thomas ‘the Plow’ Plowman, whose enthusiasm rubbed off on the
rest of the team. The team finished first in the league division 2,
winning several matches 12-0 in sets. In Cuppers, the side made it
to the quarter-finals, where a strong Christchurch outfit armed
with two or three blues narrowly knocked us out. However,
talismanic Dave Cresswell was unavailable for this encounter,
meaning that in a tight finish, Lincoln were edged out, where
perhaps they might have triumphed at full strength. Old hands
Olly Levy and Julian Levitt and Mike Mountain performed solidly,
while American Dan Phillips added strength in depth to the team.
Things look promising for next summer as Henry Tillson takes over
the captaincy.
Mike Mountain
Womens Tennis
Lincoln College girls enjoyed a successful term of tennis this Trinity
term. Freshers Christina, Ruth and Kathryn gave the team standard
a boost and we enthusiastically embarked upon the many matches
to be played. The girls surpassed themselves in being top of their
group in the League and going on to a well-fought defeat against a
highly experienced Brasenose team with several Blues players. The
Cuppers tournament was again a victorious story with Lincoln
reaching the quarter-finals and unfortunately being knocked out by
New College although the games score was totally even.
Congratulations to Claire and Jenny for their great doubles play.
Netball
Lincoln fielded two netball teams again this year, the A team
competed in the second division and the B team in the fourth. The
B team played consistently well throughout the year, finishing the
season in 6th place in their league. In Michaelmas term the A team
finshed sixth in their division too and went on to improve upon this
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in Hilary term having a successful unbeaten spell of five matches so
finishing third, just one place away from promotion to the first
division. In Cuppers, which took place mid-Hilary term, the A
team unfortunately had the hardest group in the whole tournament
but despite this ended up second, narrowly missing out on the
chance to go through to the finals.
Nicola Bitettlestone
Badminton
It was a disappointing season for Lincoln’s badminton. Suffering a
loss of three out of four of last year’s squad members, the team
needed to be completely reworked, and with all four squad
members being finalists, practise time was scarce to none. The
men’s fourth division, to which we’d been promoted in the 20032004 season, proved to be a bridge too far for our new squad.
The well-polished Jesus-Linacre team won both games against
our second pairing demonstrating that picking from the pooled
resources of two colleges, both substantially larger than Lincoln,
really does help. One game was declared a draw, based on late
arrivals on both sides, and our first pair were able to collect a
convincing win against the Jesus-Linacre second pair. Lady
Margaret Hall were only able to put one pair, albeit a skilful one,
beating both pairs put out by Lincoln in two entertaining matches,
however Lincoln still collected a win by default. And despite
numerous requests, both Keble B and St Catz B teams declined all
invitations to play – resulting in default draws in both matches.
Lincoln’s biggest disadvantage is its size. Good players, but not
good enough to make a Blues team (as league rules disqualify Blues
players from college teams), are few and far between. With a limited
pool of people to choose from, Lincoln simply can’t compete in
higher divisions. However a suggested move to merge with another
college was met with high resistance – it seems we’re just too proud
to be associated with any other college!
The future of Lincoln’s league badminton team is now unclear,
with three of four current members being final year students, it
looks like it’ll be “back to the drawing board” for next year’s captain
James Morris. So it’s back to the fifth division for the team, but
hopes are high that with a little luck and some new talent in the
younger years, we’ll be back like a boomerang next year, and
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hopefully future teams can draw on the experience gained by this
year’s team.
On the other hand, the major success of this year was Lincoln’s
non-competitive play. The club was first established in its current
form in the 02/03 academic year, but due to lack of popularity was
abandoned the next year. This year however, the club bought new
rackets, and began to play at Magdalen College School. The club
provides a weekly venue for players of all abilities. Organised and
run by Samuel Adams (Michaelmas and Hilary) and Rachel Parkes
(Trinity), and with regular attendance of 10+ people per session, the
weekly badminton club proved to be a huge success, and will
continue to be so next year.
Samuel Adams (2001)
Darts
After two consecutive promotions we were expecting a tough year
in the second division. The season started strangely; in our first
game St. Catz conceded, which put us top of the league without
throwing a dart. Although we could not maintain the lead into the
Christmas break, we re-emerged in the New Year with a Lincoln
record 10-2 victory over St. Peter’s. The momentum was continued
with a thrilling victory away at St. Anne’s in which our last pair,
Richard Stock and Roger Dowsett, defeated the opposition Blues
players to steal the deciding leg. This took us back to the top of the
table, where we stayed until the end. Consistency was the key to
winning the Championship, as we never scored fewer than five
points in any match throughout the season. We also entered
Cuppers for the first time, reaching the quarterfinal and losing only
to the top-seeded team. Two players were ever-present, Mike Lyons
and Andy Boyle. Thanks go to all the other regulars: Robert
Cooper, Roger Dowsett, Richard Stock, Roman Heindorff, Simon
Faulkner, Richard Ecob and Tony Daly. Thanks also to the
following, who made vital contributions along the way: Simon De
Souza, Michael Cubbin, Mike Caldercott, Richard Macdonald,
Tom Plowman and Guillermo Machado. Full colours were awarded
to Mike Lyons (captain) and Andy Boyle. Lyons passes the baton of
captaincy to Mike Caldercott, who we hope will continue the good
work in Lincoln’s first ever season in the top division.
Table Tennis
Lincoln table tennis has enjoyed its second year since gaining a new
table in the Lower Lecture Room on which to practice. The weeks
of Michaelmas term saw it well used both for general fun and for
more serious preparation for the University tournament.
Cuppers itself ran for the length of Hilary term and into Trinity,
with Lincoln entering 5 teams in total. This year the standard was
high across the University; and Lincoln fared well. Two teams made
it to the last sixteen with one of them making it all the way to the
semis where they met a well prepared St Hugh’s who bested them
on the day, leaving them to beat Queen’s in the play offs and earn
their place as 3rd in the University. Congratulations for that effort
go to Roger Waite, Paul Hook and Michael Jones; whilst Tom Field,
Tong Hao, Guillermo Machado and James Morris all deserve
special mention. Many of the players are staying on next year and
so with a bit of practice we might have an even stronger turnout in
2006/07.
Mike Jones
Retired Table Tennis Captain
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Examination Results: Trinity Term 2005
FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS
Biochemistry Part II
Blockeel, A L ..............................................2.1
Sutton, C D................................................2.2
Chemistry Part II
Belsey, N A ................................................2.1
Lovell, M P ................................................2.2
Winton, J....................................................2.2
Classics & Modern Languages
Newman, D C S ........................................2.1
Classical Archaeology & Ancient History
Hawkesford, H M ......................................2.1
Procter, H L................................................2.1
Computation
Whistler, W T B ........................................2.1
Economics & Management
Bramley, N R ..............................................2.1
Field, T W ....................................................1
Myers, L......................................................2.1
Paterson, C J ..............................................2.1
Engineering Science Part II
Chadwick, S P A............................................1
Cole, N C ..................................................2.1
Hughes, J E ................................................2.1
Reason, J ....................................................2.2
Turnbull, R G ............................................2.1
English
Bloomfield, J ..............................................2.1
Caddy, S......................................................2.1
Davies, W J S..............................................2.1
Elliot, L J ....................................................2.1
Eyre-Maunsell, T D ....................................2.1
O’Hara, N ....................................................1
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Orlans, O R................................................2.1
Toulson, TG ..............................................2.1
Woodward, G ............................................2.1
Wright, K....................................................2.1
Zilkha, L L..................................................2.1
Mathematics (4yr course)
Adams, S D M ..............................................1
Child, B FM ..............................................2.1
Stewart, A J....................................................1
Wong, S SM ..............................................2.1
History
Cox, O........................................................2.1
Dudley, T G................................................2.1
Freedman, L V A ........................................2.1
Frew, J S......................................................2.1
March, S J ..................................................2.1
Maxwell, L C ..............................................2.1
Shaw, H K ....................................................1
Wheeler, T L L ..........................................2.2
Wilkinson, J................................................2.1
Wooding, O J ............................................2.1
Mathematics (3yr course)
McBurnie, S E ..............................................1
Paulson, M N ............................................2.1
History & Modern Languages
Popa, M I....................................................2.1
Smith, P......................................................2.2
History & Politics
Beswick, S ..................................................2.1
O’Rooke, C L ............................................2.1
Law
Brown, S L..................................................2.1
Evans, T J....................................................2.1
Finding, P T L ............................................2.1
House, M....................................................2.1
Kennedy, A ................................................2.1
McQuillan, F ..............................................2.1
Mills, H ......................................................2.1
Owen, D S..................................................2.2
Wang, Y ........................................................1
Worthen, T J ..............................................2.1
Diploma in Legal Studies
Bourcier, A-C ................................................P
Mathematics & Computation
Musgrave, D K C ..........................................3
Mathematics & Statistics
Whale, J ....................................................2.2
Medicine
Dewar, K H ................................................2.1
O’Farrell, E S ..............................................2.1
Richards, S C..............................................2.1
Richardson, L J ..............................................1
Staveley, I ....................................................2.1
Modern Languages
Charlton, A P ............................................2.2
Lis, N A ......................................................2.1
Philosophy & Modern Languages
Barton, L J ..................................................2.1
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Brewis, M F ................................................2.1
Cave, T A ..................................................2.1
Corbett, E U ..............................................2.1
Curl, A W F ..................................................1
Hamilton, A................................................2.1
Hoare, G T B ................................................1
Hunt, E FW ..................................................1
Kindt, C N ................................................2.1
Lim P S ......................................................2.1
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Stringer, E L ..................................................1
Webber, R ..................................................2.1
Physics (4 yr course)
Ashby, G L..................................................2.1
Chuang, K-C K ............................................1
Ecob, R ..........................................................1
Le Witt, J A ................................................2.1
Robertson, A M ............................................1
Physics (3yr course)
Oscroft, A L ..................................................3
Jones, M P ....................................................1
Physiological Sciences
Jones, R A ..................................................2.1
Levy, O J ....................................................2.1
Nigel J Reynolds – Generation of non-
Jelena Smoljan – Socio-Economics Aspects of
stabilised oxiranyl anions and their reactions
with electriphiles
Peace-building: UNTAES and the
Reintegration of Eastern Slavonia 1996-2000
David M Peters – Radiometric calibration of
the high resolution dynamics limb sounder
Amy Elizabeth Flanders – Walking on the
Ceiling: British Book Publishers and the
Second World War
Corinna di Gennaro – Social Capital and
Political Participation in Britain
Michel Frederic Cottier – The Organisation of
Antonio Beneto – Aspects of the Performance
Customs Duties in Ptolemaic and Roman
Egypt (circa 332 BC-AD 284)
of Low Temperature calorimeters for X-Ray
Spectroscopy with High Detection Efficiency
Ching Wa Wong – Psychoanalytic theory and
moral naturalism.
Rubina Raja – Urban Development and
Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman
Provinces, 50 BC-AD 250: Aphrodisias,
Ephesos, Athens, Gerasa
GRADUATE EXAMINATION
RESULTS – 2004-05
Ramesh Rajasekaran – Analysis of Dovetail for
Timothy James Janz – The Scholia to Sophcles’
Fretting Fatigue
Philoctetes
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)
(Granted Leave to Supplicate)
Fatima Isabel Rodrigues Marques-Kranc –
Dong-Sheng Wen – Flow Boiling Heat
Transfer in Microgeometrics
Justin Boyes – The microcircuitry of the
Jane Alexandra McAdam – Seeking Refuge in
substantia nigra
Matthew A S Carter – Aeneid 3: a critical
reassessment
Ole Marius Emberland – Companies before the
European Court of Human Rights
Nicholas Cole Pierpan – Landed property and
the dispossessed in Bunyan and Wordsworth
Christopher E J Simons – ‘A man on the peak
of the crag’: five studies of antiquarianism in
the poetry of William Wordsworth, 1793-1842
Molecular Mechanisms of CITED2 Function
Human Rights: Complementary Protection in
International Refugee Law
Jan Gruber – Theoretical and Experimental
Studies of Protein-Protein Interactions
Karen Junod – Writing the Lives of Artists:
Biography and the Construction of Artistic
Identity in Britain (ca. 1760-1810)
Fiona Gutiez Cochrane – Characterisation of
the Sirp Gene Family and CD47 Viral
Homologues
Marie Titiloye Fasehun – Regulation of
Probabilistic Transmitter Release: A Role for
Calcium
Daniel Kofman – The Right of National
Secession and Self-Determination
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
David Foster (Economics) Distinction
(Awarded George Webb Medley Prize for best
thesis)
Joanna Lim (Economics) Pass
Andrew Elliot (Economics) Pass
Lucy Smith (Classical Archaeology) Distinction
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Gulia Saltini-Semerari (Classical Archaeology) Pass
Julian Bloomfield (Greek/Roman History) Pass
Claire Eager (Development Studies) Pass
Ian Chadwick (Modern History) Distinction
Master of Letters (MLit)
Patrick Shoaf Gray – The Passionate Stoic:
Shakespeare’s Brutus
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Richard Brenner (Business Administration) Pass
Robin Doble (Economics for Development) Pass
Finlay Wright MSc (Latin American Studies) Pass
Master of Studies (MSt)
Ventia Bridges (English Languages and
Literature) Pass
Caroline Murphree (English Languages and
Literature) Pass
Christopher Stamatakis (English Languages
and Literature) Distinction
Daniela Almansi (European Literature)
Distinction
Jonathan Dickman-Wilkes (Business
Administration) Pass
Tri-Thong Le (Business Administration ) Pass
Hanna Wozniak (Business Administration) Pass
Foreign Service Programme
Master of Science (MSc)
Nur Azman Abdul Rahim (Certificate in
Diplomatic Studies)
Tai Oya (Legal Research (Law)) Pass
Magister Juris (MJur)
Helga Biro Pass
Crystal Chen Pass
Debora Pavila Distinction
Adrien von Breitenstein Pass
Chotika Wittayawarakul Pass
Roger Zuber Pass
Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL)
Hanaan Balala Pass
Klint Cowan Pass
Gideon Gee Pass
Michael Lightfoot Distinction
James O’Regan Distinction
Claire Roby Pass
Alexander Maple (Russian & East European
Studies) Distinction
Students Joining the College Michaelmas 2004
Graduates
Abudul Rahim, Nur Azman
Almansi, Daniela
Balala, Hanaan
Barrett, Kim Susan
Biro, Helga
Blume, Clarissa
Bourgueroua, Lamine
Brenner, Richard
Bruderer, Martin Ulrich
Burhoj, Peter
Caballero Bendixsen, Luis Sebastian
Chen, Crystal Jing
Cowan, Klint Austin
Davies, Simon Gareth Sanctuary
Diaz, Delavane
Dickman-Wilkes, Jonathan Peter
Doble, Robin Timothy
Elfant, David Jeremie
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Farquhar, Claire Ann
Fuster, Andreas Martin
Gee, Gideon Paul
Gerber, Remo Peter
Grogg, Adam Anderson
Haig, Neil Ainslie
Hao, Tong
Hu, Jingping
Jayaraman Nagarajan, Ahamaarshan
Karlsson, Roger Karl Johan
Khan, Asim Naseem
Le, Tri-Thong
Li, Ningning
Lightfoot, Michael
Maier, Helena Jane
Maple, Alexander Sikander
McCrory, Christine Elizabeth
Minson, Stuart James
Mortimer, Alwyn Hugh
Murphree, Caroline Marie
Nguyen, Duc-Quang
O’Regan, James Patrick
Oya, Tai
Pavila, Debora
Porritt, Oliver
Rawling, Joanna Frances
Ribi, Amalia Lavinia Noeni
Rogers, Christopher
Rotman, Robin Mercedes
Saltini Semerari, Giulia
Shultziner, Doron
Sienaert, Alexis
Tanzhaus, Katrin
Von Breitenstein, Adrien
Watkins, Brian Neil
Wittayawarakul, Chotika
Witter, Daniel Philip
Wozniak, Hannah Catherine
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Zuber, Roger
Undergraduates
Allchin, Lorraine D
Baker, Adam William
Bello, Simon Harold Solomon
Bland, Daisy Prudence Harriet
Bourcier, Anne-Charlotte
Bowen, Alice May
Brady, Dominique Siobhan
Brandon, Katherine Emma
Buerger, Johannes
Bunney, Daniel James
Burton, Charles Peter
Caldecott, Michael Harry
Chow, Wen Qi
Clark, Isabel Hope
Clark, Paul
Connell, Richard Thomson
Cotterill, Polly
Cowie, Paul Linton
Cox, Hayley Leah
D’Arcy, Rhiannon Sian
Diamond, Sophie Claire
Edwards, Matthew
Fraser, Lorna Claire
Freeman, Megan Amelia
Finch, Saffron Katia
Gourvitch, Natalie
Graham, Aaron Benjamin
Grainger, Helen Emily
Green, David Joseph
Greenman, Kathryn Jane
Haden, Rebecca Joan
Hall, Matthew George Stirling
Hargreaves, Thomas Edward
Hay, Simon Joseph Edward
Ivanyushenokova, Elena
Jones, Phillip Graham
Kent, Christopher Ralph
Levy, Jake Theodore
Liddell, Simon John
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Loganathan, Anthea Loshana
Marchbank, James Christopher
Matthews, Charlotte Louise
McLaren, Matthew James
Mogni, Maria Elena
Munn, Oliver Adrian
Napier, Ashley Alan
Neilson, Sian
Parkes, Rachel Victoria
Peppiatt, Anneka Jane
Peychers, Alexander James
Phillips, Dominic Gregory
Plowman, Thomas
Quincey, Hannah
Rickard, Frances Emily
Riekeles, Haakon Peter
Robinson, Robert William
Russell, Nicola Caroline
Sample, Kirsten Claire
Sangretoro, Thomas
Saran, Amardeep
Sears, Nicholas Edward Newton
Sharrocks, Chloe Ann
Sibbel, Shane Joseph Roderick
Simmonds, Richard David
Simms, Kathryn Rachel
Simpson, Rupert Wesley
Smallbone, Nicholas Paul Christopher
Taylor, Rebecca Mary
Terwitte, Johannes David
Tillson, Henry William
Trinder, Lucy Rhiannon
Walton, Christina Frances
Winstone, Emma Claire
Wood, Rachel Katherine Lloyd
Wood, Ruth Angela
Xie, Cong Min
Young, Natalie Jane
Zapero-Maier, David
Former Lincoln Undergraduate Students
Jones, Megan Ruth
Kingston, Hugh
Lewis, Alexander Matthew
Millard, Christopher John
Nash, Robert Richard
O’Keeffe, Helen May
Perry, Guy Jacob MacDonald
Soe-Nuang, Sundee
Stamatakis, Christopher Theo
Weaver, Ingrid Miriam
Wright, Finlay Francis Harry
Students who Incorporated
Tinston, Joseph Fraser Dominic
Senior Status (2nd BA)
Gupta, Neeraj
Visiting Students
Remigan, Eric Dominik
Visiting Students
Breen, Sean Preston
Correia, Jorge Luis De Azevedo Lazaro
Cornuelle, Robin
Inoue, Michio
Livieratou, Antonia
Niarguinen, Dmitri
Phillips, Daniel Llewellyn Jones
Risinger, Jacob Bath
Tuturea, George-Romeo
New Lincoln Graduates who were former
undergraduates from other Oxford
Colleges
Armstrong, Emilie Jane
Bridges, Venetia Rachel Lucy
Harrison, Freya
Hiller, Edward Daniel
Robey, Claire Rebecca
Students Joining the College Hilary 2005
Graduates
McDougall, Carmel
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